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Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie.
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
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
Told
Asks
Lying
Trotting
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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.
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As for disappointing them I should not so much mind but I can't abide to disappoint myself.
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.
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Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.
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At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down, the monarch of a shed Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze While his lov'd partner, boastful of her hoard, Displays her cleanly platter on the board.
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In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.
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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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A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.
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Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please.
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The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.
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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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It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.
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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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An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.
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