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Oliver Goldsmith

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Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.


— Oliver Goldsmith


#humor #lies #questions #sarcasm #wit

I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.


— Oliver Goldsmith


#friends #wine #love

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.


— Oliver Goldsmith


#perseverance

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.


— Oliver Goldsmith


#love #equality

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!


— Oliver Goldsmith


#bliss #charming #colors #consummate #deceptive

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.


— Oliver Goldsmith


#country #different #every #everywhere #politeness

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.


— Oliver Goldsmith


#conscience #coward #enough #faults #justice

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.


— Oliver Goldsmith


#men #wealth #where

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.


— Oliver Goldsmith


#life #lips #preach #sermon #than

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?


— Oliver Goldsmith


#away #betray #charm #finds #folly






About Oliver Goldsmith

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Did you know about Oliver Goldsmith?

The family moved to the parsonage at Lissoy between Athlone and Ballymahon and continued to live there until his father's death in 1747. The location of his birthplace is also uncertain. Thomas De Quincey wrote of him 'All the motion of Goldsmith's nature moved in the direction of the true the natural the sweet the gentle'.

He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes the source of the phrase "goody two-shoes". He also wrote An History of the Earth and Animated Nature.

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