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In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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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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When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.
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It is not easy to recover an art when once lost.
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Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
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Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.
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Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind.
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The first blow is half the battle.
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The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.
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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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Wealth accumulates, and men decay.
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The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success.
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The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,- A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.
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Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
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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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The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.
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Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely
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Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.
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Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.
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Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.
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It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
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