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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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Elphin
County Roscommon
Oliver Goldsmit
Doctor Goldsmith
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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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The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.
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Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely
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