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The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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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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Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.
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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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This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and awe- - that is described by the torrent, the flame, and every other instance of irresistible impetuosity.
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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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Politics resemble religion attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.
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To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.
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Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
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Popular glory is a perfect coquette her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. True glory, on the other hand, resembles a woman of sense her admirers must play no tricks. They feel no great anxiety, for they are sure in the end of being rewarded in proportion to their merit.
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