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Oliver Goldsmith Quotes


An Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield, his pastoral poem The Deserted Village, and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man and She Stoops to Conquer.
Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1730 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770) (written in memory of his brother), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). He also wrote An History of the Earth and Animated Nature. He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, the source of the phrase "goody two-shoes".

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The very pink of perfection.

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Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

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Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no fibs.

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Laws grind the poor and rich men rule the law.

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He watch'd and wept he pray'd and felt for all.

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The man recover'd of the bite The dog it was that died.

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Man wants but little here below nor wants that little long.

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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

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If you were to make little fishes talk they would talk like whales.

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Philosophy is a good horse in the stable but an errant jade on a journey.

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To make a fine gentleman several trades are required but chiefly a barber.

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The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more they reward virtue.

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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.

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But in his duty prompt at every call He watch'd and wept he pray'd and felt for all.