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To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
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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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Thus 'tis with all their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.
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The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.
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Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.
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One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.
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Wealth accumulates, and men decay.
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The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
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The very pink of perfection.
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Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.
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He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.
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So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
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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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What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement.
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Politics resemble religion attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.
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