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Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
Dramaturge
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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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As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure but there's no love lost between us.
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I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.
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Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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We are all sure of two things, at least we shall suffer and we shall all die.
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Those who think must govern those that toil.
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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.
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