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While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Politics resemble religion attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.
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What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement.
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No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.
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He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.
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The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.
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O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity to thee the wretched seek for succor on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of--disappointment.
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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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It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.
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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
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