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
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A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
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A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
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They liked the book better the more it made them cry.
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In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.
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Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.
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One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.
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The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.
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The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
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I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and, I believe, Dorothy, you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.
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Still to ourselves in every place consigned, / Our own felicity we make or find.
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The bashful virgin's side-long looks of love,/ The matron's glance that would those looks reprove.
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I'm now no more than a mere lodger in my own house.
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Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
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The land of scholars, and the nurse of arms.