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To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.
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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As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in, They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in.
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A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
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The very pink of perfection.
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Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.
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The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger.
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Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.
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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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The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.
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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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Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.
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A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
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We are all sure of two things, at least we shall suffer and we shall all die.
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I always get the better when I argue alone.
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