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One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.
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Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.
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While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
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Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.
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Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
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Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed.
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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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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 volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.
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A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.
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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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Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.
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A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.
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Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of relieving only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.
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