Quote by Oliver Goldsmith
I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a

I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts. – Oliver Goldsmith

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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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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond. – Oliver Goldsmith

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What is the use of your pedigrees? – Juvenal

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Lords are lordliest in their wine. – John Milton

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Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England. – Virginia Woolf

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It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good — and less trouble! – Mark Twain

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