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Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1730 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773).

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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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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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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