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If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.
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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What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement.
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If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
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Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes.
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The English laws punish vice the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
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Popular glory is a perfect coquette her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. True glory, on the other hand, resembles a woman of sense her admirers must play no tricks. They feel no great anxiety, for they are sure in the end of being rewarded in proportion to their merit.
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Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living
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A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.
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Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.
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I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.
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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.
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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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In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.
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Wealth accumulates, and men decay.
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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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A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
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Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.
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It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.
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Crimes generally punish themselves.
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