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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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Elphin
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Oliverus Goldsmith
Olver Goldsmith
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Dottor Golssmith
Tom Telescope
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Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.
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Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please.
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The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.
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Silence gives consent.
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Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind.
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He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
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