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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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
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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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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.
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A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.
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Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.
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Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.
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Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend, And round his dwelling guardian saints attend.
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The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.
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