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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
Essayist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Playwright
Poet
Polygraph
Theatrical Producer
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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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In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still While words of learned length and thundering sound Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew.
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Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.
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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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All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
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Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
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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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I always get the better when I argue alone.
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The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
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So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
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Silence gives consent.
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The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.
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The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,- A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.
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In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.
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Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
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