# Oliver Goldsmith

- Quotes: 27
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/oliver-goldsmith

## Books

- [The Vicar of Wakefield](https://www.leafyquotes.com/oliver-goldsmith/the-vicar-of-wakefield.md) — 27 quotes

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> By the living jingo, she was all of a muck of sweat.

> When lovely woman stoops to folly,
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> And finds too late that men betray,
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> What charm can soothe her melancholy,
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> What art can wash her guilt away?

> A kind and gentle heart he had,
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> To comfort friends and foes;
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> The naked every day he clad
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> When he put on his clothes.

> We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors.

> To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?

> And in that town a dog was found,
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> As many dogs there be,
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> Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound,
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> And curs of low degree.

> I...chose a wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.

> And what is friendship but a name,
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> A charm that lulls to sleep,
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> A shade that follows wealth or fame,
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> And leaves the wretch to weep?

> Man wants but little here below,
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> Nor wants that little long.

> I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too.

> No flocks that range the valley free
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> To slaughter I condemn;
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> Taught by that Power that pities me,
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> I learn to pity them:
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> But from the mountain’s grassy side
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> A guiltless feast I bring;
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> A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied,
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> And water from the spring.

> They would talk of nothing but high life, and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.