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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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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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The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.
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The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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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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If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.
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Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.
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Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.
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While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.
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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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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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An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.
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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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The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.
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Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.
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Error is ever talkative.
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Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.
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Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.
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