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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
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Literary Critic
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Physician
Physician Writer
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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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Measures, not men, have always been my mark.
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We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.
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Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.
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The wretch condemn'd with life to part, Still, still on hope relies And every pang that rends the heart Bids expectation rise.
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An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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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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Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie.
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The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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