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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Tom Telescope
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Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.
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If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.
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There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
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Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they.
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Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind.
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