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Thus 'tis with all their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Tom Telescope
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Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.
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Though very poor, may still be very blest.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose.
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Silence gives consent.
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The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.
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As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure but there's no love lost between us.
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
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The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single vice but has a more powerful opponent, and not one virtue but may be overborne by a combination of vices.
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By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd The sports of children satisfy the child.
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They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
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Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.
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