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Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Though very poor, may still be very blest.
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An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.
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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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The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose.
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All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
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