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

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