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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.
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Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.
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The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.
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Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
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Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they.
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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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Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
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Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.
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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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How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!
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