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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.
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The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from one of any other country. It is among the vulgar we are to find those distinctions which characterize a people.
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All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.
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Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.
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I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.
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Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
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It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It is by the exercise of this virtue alone they can ever expect to be useful members of society.
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Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.
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Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.
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