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A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Elphin
County Roscommon
Oliver Goldsmit
Doctor Goldsmith
Oliverio Goldsmith
Oliverus Goldsmith
Olver Goldsmith
Olivier Goldsmith
Dottor Golssmith
Tom Telescope
Solomon Winlove
James Willington
Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
Dr Goldsmith
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In all the silent manliness of grief.
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And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
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In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.
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A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.
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Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.
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