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Measures, not men, have always been my mark.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Dottor Golssmith
Tom Telescope
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Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
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How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!
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At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down, the monarch of a shed Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze While his lov'd partner, boastful of her hoard, Displays her cleanly platter on the board.
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Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.
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Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.
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A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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