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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
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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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A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.
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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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Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.
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Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.
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The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose.
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Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie.
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We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.
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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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I always get the better when I argue alone.
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Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat.
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Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
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All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.
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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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Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes.
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Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.
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Wealth accumulates, and men decay.
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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Error is ever talkative.
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Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.
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