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As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure but there's no love lost between us.
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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Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
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As for disappointing them I should not so much mind but I can't abide to disappoint myself.
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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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