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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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A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.
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Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed.
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Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.
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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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Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.
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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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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.
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For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity but every other the offspring of guilt.
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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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The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.
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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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To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.
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The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.
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Prudery is ignorance.
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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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Thus 'tis with all their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.
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They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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