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It is not easy to recover an art when once lost.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
Dramaturge
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Literary Critic
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Physician
Physician Writer
Playwright
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Polygraph
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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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More quotes by Oliver Goldsmith
This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and awe- - that is described by the torrent, the flame, and every other instance of irresistible impetuosity.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!
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The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.
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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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A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
Oliver Goldsmith
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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There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.
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The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.
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Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.
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The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from one of any other country. It is among the vulgar we are to find those distinctions which characterize a people.
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As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It is by the exercise of this virtue alone they can ever expect to be useful members of society.
Oliver Goldsmith
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
Oliver Goldsmith
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.
Oliver Goldsmith
The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.
Oliver Goldsmith
As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure but there's no love lost between us.
Oliver Goldsmith
By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd The sports of children satisfy the child.
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