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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
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Physician
Physician Writer
Playwright
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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
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Honour
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Thus 'tis with all their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.
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In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still While words of learned length and thundering sound Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew.
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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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Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
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The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.
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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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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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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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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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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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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.
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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.
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To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.
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While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
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The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from one of any other country. It is among the vulgar we are to find those distinctions which characterize a people.
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