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Quote by Oliver Goldsmith
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense,

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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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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They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Life is about learning when you stop learning, you die. – Tom Clancy

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We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement. – Candice S. Miller

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I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s. – Lionel Hampton

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Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. – Thomas Fuller

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