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In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Oliver Goldsmit
Doctor Goldsmith
Oliverio Goldsmith
Oliverus Goldsmith
Olver Goldsmith
Olivier Goldsmith
Dottor Golssmith
Tom Telescope
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Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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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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The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,- A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.
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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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To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.
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The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.
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The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.
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Silence gives consent.
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O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!
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All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.
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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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I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.
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If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.
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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
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Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.
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If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.
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The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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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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