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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
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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
Inspired Idiot
Lying
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Stoops
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To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
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The English laws punish vice the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
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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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The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.
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And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
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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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True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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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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The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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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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The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
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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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