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Crimes generally punish themselves.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
Dramaturge
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Elphin
County Roscommon
Oliver Goldsmit
Doctor Goldsmith
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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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If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.
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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
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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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And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.
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I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.
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When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.
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Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.
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All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.
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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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I always get the better when I argue alone.
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Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
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A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
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To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.
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Those who think must govern those that toil.
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All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.
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True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.
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Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind.
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And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
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