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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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
Inspired Idiot
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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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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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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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Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
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At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down, the monarch of a shed Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze While his lov'd partner, boastful of her hoard, Displays her cleanly platter on the board.
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A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.
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The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.
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Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.
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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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Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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