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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
Dramaturge
Essayist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Playwright
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Polygraph
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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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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.
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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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But times are alter'd trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose.
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Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.
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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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I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.
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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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Religion does what philosophy could never do it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.
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Politics resemble religion attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.
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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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A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.
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Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living
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The very pink of perfection.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,- A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.
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Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And every care resign: And we shall never, never part, My life-my all that's mine!
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