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Wenn man kleine Fische zum Reden bringen könnte, würden sie wie Walfische sprechen.
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Schriftsteller, Theologe, Arzt (England, 1728 - 1774).
Oliver Goldsmith · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Oliver Goldsmith wäre heute 295 Jahre, 5 Monate, 10 Tage oder 107.908 Tage alt.
Geboren am 10.11.1728
Gestorben am 04.04.1774
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Weitere 115 Zitate von Oliver Goldsmith
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
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I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men; all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.
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I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.
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I see the rural virtues leave the land.
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I was ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single and only talked of population.
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I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
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If frugality were established in the state, if our expenses were laid out rather in the necessaries than the superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.
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Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey when wealth accumulates but men decay.
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Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more; His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
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In all the silent manliness of grief.
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In arguing too, the parson owned his skill, For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still; While words of learned length, and thund'ring sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around, And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew.
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In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.
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Is it one of my well-looking days, child? Am I in face to-day?
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It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
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It's a damned long, dark, boggy, dirty, dangerous way.
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Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Learn the luxury of doing good.
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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Little things are great to little men.