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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
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Physician
Physician Writer
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Polygraph
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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
Inspired Idiot
Lying
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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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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise luxury, therefore, as it increases our wants, increases our capacity for happiness
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Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend, And round his dwelling guardian saints attend.
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They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
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The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.
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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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It is not easy to recover an art when once lost.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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All the bloomy flush of life is fled.
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As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,- Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Those who think must govern those that toil.
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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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I always get the better when I argue alone.
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Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.
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Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.
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And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
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To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.
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Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.
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