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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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Tom Telescope
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James Willington
Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
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Silence gives consent.
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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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While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
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Measures, not men, have always been my mark.
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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
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Error is always talkative.
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Those who think must govern those that toil.
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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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A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.
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The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.
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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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Prudery is ignorance.
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One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.
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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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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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Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
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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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To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.
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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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