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Oliver Goldsmith

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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.


— Oliver Goldsmith


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I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.


— Oliver Goldsmith


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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.


— Oliver Goldsmith


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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.


— Oliver Goldsmith


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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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