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A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.
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
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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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I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.
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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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We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
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He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
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And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.
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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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The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success.
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In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.
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Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.
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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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