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A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
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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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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There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors in the orator to please them. The meanest qualifications will work this effect if the preacher sincerely sets about it.
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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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Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
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Silence gives consent.
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Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.
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A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.
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Politics resemble religion attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.
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In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.
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One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.
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Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.
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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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.
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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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