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We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.
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
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Dottor Golssmith
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James Willington
Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.
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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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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.
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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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