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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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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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More quotes by Oliver Goldsmith
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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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
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And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.
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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
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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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O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!
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A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.
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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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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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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.
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To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.
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And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
Oliver Goldsmith
Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.
Oliver Goldsmith
The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.
Oliver Goldsmith
Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
Oliver Goldsmith
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
Oliver Goldsmith
Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.
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