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All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
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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And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
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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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