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Oliver Goldsmith

Date of Birth:

10-Nov-1728

Nationality:

Ireland

Profession:

Writer, writer, poet, and playwright, Goldsmith was born in Kilkenny West, County Westmeath, Ireland. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, and studied medicine in Edinburgh but never received a doctorate. He emigrated to Europe in 1756 and settled in London. He worked as a writer and was a friend of artistic illumination and writing at the time, including Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Edmund Burke.

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"Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around."
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"Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind."
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"You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam."
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"Those that think must govern those that toil."
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"Who can direct when all pretend to know?"
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"The weakest soul, within itself unblest, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast"
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"Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure."
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"The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel"
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"The very pink of perfection."
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"There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side."
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"I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well"
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"Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end."
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