187 ordspråk av Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
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And, all his prospects brightening to the last, / His heaven commences ere the world be past!
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Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.
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As a wit, if not first, in the very first line.
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As for disappointing them, I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.
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As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure. But there's no love lost between us.
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As I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat from the tailor, so I take my religion from the priest
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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent.
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
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Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, / With blossomed furze unprofitably gay.
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But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.
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By the living jingo, she was all of a muck of sweat.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse
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