You may all go to pot.
You may all go to pot.
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Verses in reply to an invitation to dine at Dr. Baker’s
Other Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
- Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;
Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade;
A breath can make them, as a breath has made;
But a bold peasantry, their country’s pride,
When once destroyed, can never be supplied. - View Quote Details on Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth… - Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails,
And honor sinks where commerce long prevails. - View Quote Details on Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails,
And honor sinks where… - Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po. - View Quote Details on Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering… - Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. - View Quote Details on Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject…
- That strain once more; it bids remembrance rise. - View Quote Details on That strain once more; it bids remembrance rise.
- And, ev’n while fashion’s brightest arts decoy,
The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy. - View Quote Details on And, ev’n while fashion’s brightest arts decoy,
The heart distrusting asks,… - Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. - View Quote Details on Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.
- All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them. - View Quote Details on All his faults are such that one loves him still…
- Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. - View Quote Details on Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not…
- A man he was to all the country dear,
And passing rich with forty pounds a year. - View Quote Details on A man he was to all the country dear,
And passing…
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