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The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Oliverus Goldsmith
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Dottor Golssmith
Tom Telescope
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James Willington
Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!
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This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and awe- - that is described by the torrent, the flame, and every other instance of irresistible impetuosity.
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There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with gloomy reserve. This is the most dangerous state of mind accidents or friendships may lessen the louder kinds of grief, but all remedies for this must be had from within, and there despair too often finds the most deadly enemy.
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The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.
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A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.
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The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose.
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He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
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And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
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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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There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.
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In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.
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In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.
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The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.
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Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.
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Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.
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Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.
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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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To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.
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A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.
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