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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.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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County Roscommon
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Olivier Goldsmith
Dottor Golssmith
Tom Telescope
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Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind.
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There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors in the orator to please them. The meanest qualifications will work this effect if the preacher sincerely sets about it.
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Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.
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Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.
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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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Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes.
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Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.
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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
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Error is always talkative.
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One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.
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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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Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.
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So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
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Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
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As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in, They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in.
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Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely
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