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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
Dramaturge
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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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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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And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
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Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.
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Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed.
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All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
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The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from one of any other country. It is among the vulgar we are to find those distinctions which characterize a people.
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All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.
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Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
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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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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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Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.
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The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,- A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.
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One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
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It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.
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To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.
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