Quote by Oliver Goldsmith
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to beco

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease. – 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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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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For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. – Roger Bacon

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He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him. – Henry Villard

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Chess is not only knowledge and logic. – Alexander Alekhine

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Always, through my whole life, Ive had a thirst for knowledge. – Emmitt Smith

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