Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmithwas an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield, his pastoral poem The Deserted Village, and his plays The Good-Natur'd Manand She Stoops to Conquer. He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth10 November 1730
CountryIreland
taken giving advice
It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.
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The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made.
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The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.
gentleman barbers fine
To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.
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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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Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. The ignorant peasant without fault is greater than the philosopher with many. What is genius or courage without a heart?
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Silence gives consent.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.
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The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
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Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.