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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
Playwright
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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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Stoops
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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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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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It is not easy to recover an art when once lost.
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When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.
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For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity but every other the offspring of guilt.
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He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
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A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
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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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The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.
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And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
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The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.
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The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.
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True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.
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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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An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.
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Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.
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Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.
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The first blow is half the battle.
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