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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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Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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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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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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He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
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As for disappointing them I should not so much mind but I can't abide to disappoint myself.
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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.
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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
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I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.
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The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
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The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.
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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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And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.
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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 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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Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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