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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
Novelist
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
Inspired Idiot
Perfection
Pink
More quotes by Oliver Goldsmith
The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from one of any other country. It is among the vulgar we are to find those distinctions which characterize a people.
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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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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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Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely
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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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If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.
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Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind.
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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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The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.
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It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.
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Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.
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Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.
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A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.
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Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.
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There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.
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And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
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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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