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Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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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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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.
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It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.
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If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.
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As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in, They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in.
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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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A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.
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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
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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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It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.
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Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.
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Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.
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A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
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And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
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What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement.
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