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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
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
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Questions
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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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Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.
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It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
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Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.
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That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
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By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd The sports of children satisfy the child.
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At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down, the monarch of a shed Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze While his lov'd partner, boastful of her hoard, Displays her cleanly platter on the board.
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No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.
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The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.
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Politics resemble religion attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.
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Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.
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The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.
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Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.
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While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.
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It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.
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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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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
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