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Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.
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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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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But times are alter'd trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose.
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Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.
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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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Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.
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In all the silent manliness of grief.
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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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We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.
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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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The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.
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Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity it is that which gives value to every character. The ignorant peasant, without fault, is greater than the philosopher with many for what is genius or courage without a heart?
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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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There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
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And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.
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True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.
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Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.
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How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!
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It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
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Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living
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One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.
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Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
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