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“Of Dr. Goldsmith he said, "No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had."”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 507d08af800be3ba625b80b2c679a21f3271267fe583b37c0d052547d76a1f1a
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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“Goldsmith, however, was a man who whatever he wrote, did it better than any other man could do.”
Samuel Johnson
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“No man is the wiser for his learning.”
John Selden
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.”
William Shakespeare
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.”
Diogenes Laertius
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.”
Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“The pen is mightier than the sword.”
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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