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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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James Willington
Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.
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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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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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Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.
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Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
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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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Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.
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I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
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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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Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.
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As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure but there's no love lost between us.
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The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
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He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.
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Thus 'tis with all their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.
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Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise.
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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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One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.
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For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity but every other the offspring of guilt.
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Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please.
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The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.
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