Quote by Oliver Goldsmith
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the

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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Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. – Oliver Goldsmith

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We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown. – Oliver Goldsmith

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I love everything thats old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. – Oscar Wilde

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Whats the difference between the music of my generation and today s. Our songs were about Love and Romance, todays music is chiefly about sex; which I might add gets a little boring. – David A. Vigilanti

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Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man. – Anita Brookner

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving ones self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. – Oscar Wilde

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