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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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Elphin
County Roscommon
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Doctor Goldsmith
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Oliverus Goldsmith
Olver Goldsmith
Olivier Goldsmith
Dottor Golssmith
Tom Telescope
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James Willington
Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed.
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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 man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.
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Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
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If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.
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Though very poor, may still be very blest.
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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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Error is always talkative.
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For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity but every other the offspring of guilt.
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In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.
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The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.
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At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down, the monarch of a shed Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze While his lov'd partner, boastful of her hoard, Displays her cleanly platter on the board.
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
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Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.
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I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.
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Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes.
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Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.
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Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they.
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Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And every care resign: And we shall never, never part, My life-my all that's mine!
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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