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''The doctor found, when she was dead,
Her last disorder mortal.''
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Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), Anglo-Irish author, poet, playwright. Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize.
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''Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.''
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Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Hardcastle, in She Stoops to Conquer, act 5, sc. 1.
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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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Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), Anglo-Irish author, poet, playwright. Hardcastle, in She Stoops to Conquer, act 1, sc. 1 (1773).
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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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Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), Anglo-Irish author, poet, playwright. Hardcastle, in She Stoops to Conquer, act. 1, sc. 1.
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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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Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Jarvis to Olivia, in The Good Natur'd Man, act 4.
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''Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.''
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Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Leontine, in The Good Natur'd Man, act 1.
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''Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.''
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Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), Anglo-Irish author, poet, playwright. Mr. Honeywood, in The Good Natur'd Man, act 1.
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''Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.''
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Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), Anglo-Irish author, poet, playwright. Mr. Honeywood, in The Good Natur'd Man, act 1 (1768).
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''I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.''
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Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), Anglo-Irish author, poet, playwright. Narrator (Dr. Charles Primrose), in The Vicar of Wakefield, ch. 32 (1766).
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''If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.''
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Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), Anglo-Irish author, poet, playwright. Quoted in James Boswell, Life of Dr. Johnson, entry, April 27, 1773 (1791).
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The Traveller; or, A Prospect of So
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But where to find that happiest spot below
Who can direct, when all pretend to know?
The shudd'ring tenant of the frigid zone
Boldly proclaims that happiest spot his own;
Extols the treasures of his stormy seas,
And his long nights of revelry and ease:
The naked negro, panting at the line,
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