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Error is ever talkative.

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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
Dramaturge
Essayist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Playwright
Poet
Polygraph
Theatrical Producer
Writer
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
Inspired Idiot
Ever
Talkative
Error
Errors

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The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.
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True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.
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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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Politics resemble religion attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.
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Error is always talkative.
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Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.
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A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
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Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
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There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar.
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And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
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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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Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.
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I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
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Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.
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Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend, And round his dwelling guardian saints attend.
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The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.
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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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Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won.
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A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.
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