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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
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Elphin
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Doctor Goldsmith
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Oliverus Goldsmith
Olver Goldsmith
Olivier Goldsmith
Dottor Golssmith
Tom Telescope
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James Willington
Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
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Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.
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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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In all the silent manliness of grief.
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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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If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.
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The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single vice but has a more powerful opponent, and not one virtue but may be overborne by a combination of vices.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.
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The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.
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One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.
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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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A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
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A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.
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Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.
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Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.
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There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
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Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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