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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
Essayist
Literary Critic
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Physician
Physician Writer
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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 e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.
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A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
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Crimes generally punish themselves.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
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In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.
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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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Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.
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Silence gives consent.
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And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
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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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Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.
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We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.
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The English laws punish vice the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
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A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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