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Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Tom Telescope
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Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.
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A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
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Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
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Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.
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The wretch condemn'd with life to part, Still, still on hope relies And every pang that rends the heart Bids expectation rise.
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The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.
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Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
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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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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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In all the silent manliness of grief.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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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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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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.
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