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True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity it is that which gives value to every character. The ignorant peasant, without fault, is greater than the philosopher with many for what is genius or courage without a heart?
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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 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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O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!
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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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Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.
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Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend, And round his dwelling guardian saints attend.
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Measures, not men, have always been my mark.
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In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.
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