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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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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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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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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Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.
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The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.
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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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I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.
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Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!
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