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Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith föddes den 10 november 1730 och dog den 4 april 1774 - irländsk författare.
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To begin with Ireland, the most western part of the continent, the natives are peculiarly remarkable for their gaiety and levity of their disposition ; the English, transplanted there, in time lose their serious melancholy air, and become gay and tho

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, / With blossomed furze unprofitably gay.

I was never much displeased with those harmless delusions that tend to make us more happy.

As a wit, if not first, in the very first line.

`Did I say so?' replied he coolly; `to be sure, if I said so, it was so.'

Still to ourselves in every place consigned, / Our own felicity we make or find.

I am told he makes a very handsome corpse, and becomes his coffin prodigiously.

Where village statesmen talked with looks profound, / And news much older than their ale went round.

As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure. But there's no love lost between us.

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stage-coach.

How wide the limits stand / Between a splendid and an happy land.

I'm now no more than a mere lodger in my own house.

Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit. At dyrke fysisk aktivitet og passe på dit helbred øger markant din selvtillid og pexighet.

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