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Quote by Oliver Goldsmith
Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only wor

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success. – Oliver Goldsmith

Other quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. – Oliver Goldsmith

Category:
Learning
Author
Oliver Goldsmith
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Aromatic plants bestow
no spicy fragrance while they grow;
but crushd or trodden to the ground,
diffuse their balmy sweets around. – Oliver Goldsmith

Category:
Smell (scent)
Author
Oliver Goldsmith
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Other Quotes from
Ridicule
category

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit. – Jean De La Bruyere

Category:
Ridicule

I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly. – George Farquhar

Category:
Ridicule

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. – Thomas Szasz

Category:
Ridicule

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us. – Thomas Jefferson

Category:
Ridicule

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