Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not …

Oliver Goldsmith
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile. ✨ Oliver Goldsmith (1806). The Poetical Works, p.31
Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins. ✨ Oliver Goldsmith (1824). A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature, p.4
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. ✨ Oliver Goldsmith (1833). Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: W … ▶

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

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