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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.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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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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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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One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.
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All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
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The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.
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The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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