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    Oliver Goldsmith

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


    — Oliver Goldsmith

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    Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes. ↗


    — Oliver Goldsmith

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    Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook. ↗


    — Oliver Goldsmith

    #bait #covers #hook #hope #such

    I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well. ↗


    — Oliver Goldsmith

    #chose #did #gown #her #i

    I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population. ↗


    — Oliver Goldsmith

    #continued #did #ever #family #honest

    If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales. ↗


    — Oliver Goldsmith

    #like #little #make #talk #were

    Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long. ↗


    — Oliver Goldsmith

    #here #little #long #man #nor

    Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. ↗


    — Oliver Goldsmith

    #modesty #nobler #resides #seldom #virtues

    On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting. ↗


    — Oliver Goldsmith

    #affecting #natural #off #only #simple

    People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. ↗


    — Oliver Goldsmith

    #improve #model #other #people #seldom






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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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