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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
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Literary Critic
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Physician
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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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We are all sure of two things, at least we shall suffer and we shall all die.
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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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The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success.
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.
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Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend, And round his dwelling guardian saints attend.
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The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single vice but has a more powerful opponent, and not one virtue but may be overborne by a combination of vices.
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Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.
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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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And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.
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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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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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Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.
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Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
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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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A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
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Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.
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In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.
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