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That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
Dramaturge
Essayist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Playwright
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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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O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!
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Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.
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The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.
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Thus 'tis with all their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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Prudery is ignorance.
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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
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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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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in, They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in.
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The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.
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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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There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar.
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It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.
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Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.
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Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.
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Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.
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