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Oliver Goldsmith
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“And, ev'n while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy.”
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“Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.”
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“Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go, Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.”
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“In all the silent manliness of grief.”
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“O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!”
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“Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.”
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“In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.”
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“I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.”
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“The very pink of perfection.”
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“The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.”
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“Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning; Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genus a better discerning.”
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“I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.”
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“A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.”
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“The first blow is half the battle.”
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“We are the boys That fear no noise Where the thundering cannons roar.”
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“They liked the book the better the more it made them cry.”
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“Travellers, George, must pay in all places: the only difference is, that in good inns, you pay dearly for your luxuries, and in bad inns you are fleeced and starved.”
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“Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.”
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“Oh sir! I must not tell my age. They say women and music should never be dated.”
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“Baw! Damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other! With baskets.”
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“We modest Gentlemen don't want for much success among the women.”
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“Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!”
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“Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.”
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“Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind; Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote. Who too deep for his hearers still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining: Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit.”
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“His conduct still right, with his argument wrong.”
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“A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.”
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“Here lies David Garrick, describe me, who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.”
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“As a wit, if not first, in the very first line.”
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“On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting; 'Twas only that when he was off he was acting.”
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“He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back.”
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“Who peppered the highest was surest to please.”
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“When he talked of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet and only took snuff.”
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“The best-humour'd man, with the worst-humour'd Muse.”
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“The better sort here pretend to the utmost compassion for animals of every kind. To hear them speak, a stranger would be apt to imagine they could hardly hurt the gnat that stung them: they seem so tender and so full of pity, that one would take them for the harmless friends of the whole creation; the protectors of the meanest insect or reptile that was privileged with existence. And yet, would you believe it? I have seen the very men who have thus boasted of their tenderness, at the same time devouring the flesh of six different animals toasted up in a fricassee. Strange contrariety of conduct! they pity and they eat the objects of their compassion.”
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Recorded in: The Citizen of the World (1760–1761), Letter XV.
“Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.”
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“Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.”
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“Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.”
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“They please, are pleas'd; they give to get esteem, Till seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.”
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“Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land.”
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“Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centres in the mind.”
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“The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.”
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“Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,-- A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.”
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“How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!”
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“While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.”
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“The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.”
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“Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.”
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“And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.”
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“Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.”
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“Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.”
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“In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still; While words of learned length and thundering sound Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around; And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew.”
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