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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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Olivier Goldsmith
Dottor Golssmith
Tom Telescope
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James Willington
Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
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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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Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
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Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
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There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar.
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Wealth accumulates, and men decay.
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Popular glory is a perfect coquette her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. True glory, on the other hand, resembles a woman of sense her admirers must play no tricks. They feel no great anxiety, for they are sure in the end of being rewarded in proportion to their merit.
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A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.
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Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes.
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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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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.
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Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely
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The wretch condemn'd with life to part, Still, still on hope relies And every pang that rends the heart Bids expectation rise.
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Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.
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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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We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.
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