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Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
Dramaturge
Essayist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Playwright
Poet
Polygraph
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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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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The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.
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Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise.
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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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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Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.
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Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
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I always get the better when I argue alone.
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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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Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
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The very pink of perfection.
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The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.
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A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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The English laws punish vice the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
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Wealth accumulates, and men decay.
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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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