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The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.
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He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.
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The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.
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Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.
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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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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.
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Popular glory is a perfect coquette her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. True glory, on the other hand, resembles a woman of sense her admirers must play no tricks. They feel no great anxiety, for they are sure in the end of being rewarded in proportion to their merit.
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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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And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.
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