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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
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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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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.
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A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.
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Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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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Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.
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Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.
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The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.
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To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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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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