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• Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. Oliver Goldsmith
• A reserved lover, it is said, always makes a suspicious husband. -- Oliver Goldsmith
• I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing. -- Oliver Goldsmith
• I always get the better when I argue alone. -- Oliver Goldsmith
• A flattering painter, who made it his care to draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
  -- Oliver Goldsmith...
• How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease.
  -- Oliver Goldsmith...
• In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, for even tho' vanquish'd he could argue still.
  -- Oliver Goldsmith...
• Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
  -- Oliver Goldsmith...
• People seldom improve, when they have no other model but themselves to copy. -- Oliver Goldsmith