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Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
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
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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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The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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As for disappointing them I should not so much mind but I can't abide to disappoint myself.
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Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.
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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 man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.
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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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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
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Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.
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