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If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.
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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Physician Writer
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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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Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.
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Religion does what philosophy could never do it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.
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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 premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.
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All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely
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Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity it is that which gives value to every character. The ignorant peasant, without fault, is greater than the philosopher with many for what is genius or courage without a heart?
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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
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Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!
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He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
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O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!
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There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.
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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.
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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
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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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It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.
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Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.
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The English laws punish vice the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
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Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes.
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