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Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Oliverus Goldsmith
Olver Goldsmith
Olivier Goldsmith
Dottor Golssmith
Tom Telescope
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James Willington
Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat.
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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
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Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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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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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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A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.
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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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By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd The sports of children satisfy the child.
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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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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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The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
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Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie.
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The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.
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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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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.
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