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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
Essayist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Playwright
Poet
Polygraph
Theatrical Producer
Writer
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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Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.
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And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.
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Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
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It is not easy to recover an art when once lost.
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Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.
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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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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.
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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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The very pink of perfection.
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The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.
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A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.
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Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.
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