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The very pink of perfection.
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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Literary Critic
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Physician
Physician Writer
Playwright
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Polygraph
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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
Inspired Idiot
Pink
Perfection
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Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity it is that which gives value to every character. The ignorant peasant, without fault, is greater than the philosopher with many for what is genius or courage without a heart?
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O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!
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It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
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The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.
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Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.
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This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and awe- - that is described by the torrent, the flame, and every other instance of irresistible impetuosity.
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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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As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in, They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in.
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Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.
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The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.
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To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.
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The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.
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A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.
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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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Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they.
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There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.
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It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.
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They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
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