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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
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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Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes.
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The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.
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Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
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When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.
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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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All the bloomy flush of life is fled.
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As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It is by the exercise of this virtue alone they can ever expect to be useful members of society.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.
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Wealth accumulates, and men decay.
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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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