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The English laws punish vice the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.
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The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.
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Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.
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Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.
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Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed.
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The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.
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It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger.
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It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.
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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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Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise.
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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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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.
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Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of relieving only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.
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Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
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Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
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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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