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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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
Poet
Polygraph
Theatrical Producer
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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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Prevails
Commerce
Honour
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Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.
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A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.
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The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.
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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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And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
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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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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
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It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.
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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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