Oliver Goldsmith

Virtue Tenderness
" The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition. "
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Audience
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" The jests of the rich are ever successful. "
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Successful
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" There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. "
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Excellence , Virtue , Faults , Vice
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" They say women and music should never be dated. "
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Music
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" When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? "
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Art , Men , Woman , Charm , Guilt , Folly , Melancholy
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" Where wealth accumulates, men decay. "
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Men , Wealth
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" With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive. "
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Humility
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" Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better. "
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Want , World
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" You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. "
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Life
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" Tenderness is a virtue. "
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Virtue , Tenderness
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Oliver Goldsmith
born: died: genre: occupation:
10-Nov-1730 04-Apr-1774 Literature, Poetry, and Drama Writer, Poet, and Playwright
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