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The first blow is half the battle.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
Dramaturge
Essayist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Playwright
Poet
Polygraph
Theatrical Producer
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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
Inspired Idiot
Blow
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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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Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest
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Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
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The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise luxury, therefore, as it increases our wants, increases our capacity for happiness
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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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Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And every care resign: And we shall never, never part, My life-my all that's mine!
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It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.
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The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.
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