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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Elphin
County Roscommon
Oliver Goldsmit
Doctor Goldsmith
Oliverio Goldsmith
Oliverus Goldsmith
Olver Goldsmith
Olivier Goldsmith
Dottor Golssmith
Tom Telescope
Solomon Winlove
James Willington
Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
Dr Goldsmith
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
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All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.
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The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.
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Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
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In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.
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Though very poor, may still be very blest.
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Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please.
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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.
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An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.
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