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He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
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
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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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Corpses
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The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.
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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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Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of relieving only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
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I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
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It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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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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The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.
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Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.
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The English laws punish vice the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
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There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.
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The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.
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The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single vice but has a more powerful opponent, and not one virtue but may be overborne by a combination of vices.
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Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.
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The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.
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Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely
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Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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