Quote by Oliver Goldsmith
He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, for he knew when h

He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, for he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back. – Oliver Goldsmith

Other quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Romance
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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. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Learning
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Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch. – Fournier

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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. – Margaret Fuller

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Popularity? Its glorys small change. – Victor Hugo

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Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him. – Wilson Mizner

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