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• I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing. -- Oliver Goldsmith
• In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, for even tho' vanquish'd he could argue still.
  -- Oliver Goldsmith...
• A flattering painter, who made it his care to draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
  -- Oliver Goldsmith...
• Eternal sunshine settles on its head. -- Oliver Goldsmith
• Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. Oliver Goldsmith
• The little mind who loves itself, will write and think with the vulga
  but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence....
• Age is a tyrant who forbids, at the penalty of life, all the pleasures of youth.
• A reserved lover, it is said, always makes a suspicious husband. -- Oliver Goldsmith
• I always get the better when I argue alone. -- Oliver Goldsmith