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It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.
Oliver Goldsmith
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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
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Polygraph
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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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A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
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The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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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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The very pink of perfection.
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The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.
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Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend, And round his dwelling guardian saints attend.
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By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd The sports of children satisfy the child.
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