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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Politics resemble religion attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.
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We are all sure of two things, at least we shall suffer and we shall all die.
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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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As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,- Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
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Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
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The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.
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Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!
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He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.
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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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The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,- A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.
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To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.
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