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Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
Dramaturge
Essayist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Playwright
Poet
Polygraph
Theatrical Producer
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Elphin
County Roscommon
Oliver Goldsmit
Doctor Goldsmith
Oliverio Goldsmith
Oliverus Goldsmith
Olver Goldsmith
Olivier Goldsmith
Dottor Golssmith
Tom Telescope
Solomon Winlove
James Willington
Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
Dr Goldsmith
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
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As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,- Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
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If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.
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In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.
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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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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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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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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.
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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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As for disappointing them I should not so much mind but I can't abide to disappoint myself.
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