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It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in 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
Playwright
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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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Matrimony
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One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.
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If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.
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As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,- Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
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Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.
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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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For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity but every other the offspring of guilt.
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Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat.
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As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure but there's no love lost between us.
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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.
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