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Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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County Roscommon
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Oliverus Goldsmith
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Dottor Golssmith
Tom Telescope
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James Willington
Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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The first blow is half the battle.
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Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.
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While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
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Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed.
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He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.
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The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.
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