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How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.
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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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Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat.
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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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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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Error is ever talkative.
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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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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 very pink of perfection.
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Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
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While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.
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In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.
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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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One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.
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