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Error is always talkative.
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
Talkative
Error
Errors
Talking
Always
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Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
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Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
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Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend, And round his dwelling guardian saints attend.
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One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.
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Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And every care resign: And we shall never, never part, My life-my all that's mine!
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Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind.
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That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
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