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In all the silent manliness of grief.
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
Poet
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
Manliness
Grief
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Silence
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All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.
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The English laws punish vice the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
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O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity to thee the wretched seek for succor on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of--disappointment.
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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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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
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Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes.
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One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.
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A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.
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As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It is by the exercise of this virtue alone they can ever expect to be useful members of society.
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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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