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

Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

Book:The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected

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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected

This collection brings together a range of Oliver Goldsmith's works, offering readers a comprehensive view of his literary contributions across different genres and styles. more

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Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith was an Irish novelist, playwright, poet, and physician. He is best known for his novel 'The Vicar of Wakefield' and his plays 'She Stoops to Conquer' and 'The Good-Natur'd Man'. Goldsmith's works are characterized by their wit, humor, and moral depth. more

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“There is one way by which a strolling player may be ever secure of success; that is, in our theatrical way of expressing it, to make a great deal of the character. To speak and act as in common life is not playing, nor is it what people come to see; natural speaking, like sweet wine, runs glibly over the palate and scarcely leaves any taste behind it; but being high in a part resembles vinegar, which grates upon the taste, and one feels it while he is drinking.”

Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The bee. Essays. Unacknowledged essays. Prefaces, introductions, etc

“It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.”

Giving Wells Has Beens Taken Advice Qualified

Book:The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield

Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield

“Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please.”

Ignorance Please Stupidity Endeavor Disgusting Badges Allusion

Book:Letters From A Citizen Of The World: To His Friends In The East

Source: Letters From A Citizen Of The World: To His Friends In The East

“Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil?”

Age Wish Pleasure Mankind Increase Senses Enjoyment Preservation Spoil

Book:The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings : Enriched with an Elegant Portrait of the Author

Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings : Enriched with an Elegant Portrait of the Author

“The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.”

Wells May Use Currents Kingdoms Curious Volume Coins Medal Antiquity

Book:Works: With a Life and Notes

Source: Works: With a Life and Notes

“An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.”

Half Appearance Crowns Emperor Nightcap

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his pleasures, robs the remaining parts of life of their share, so that his eagerness only produces manhood of imbecility and an age of pain.”

Age Pain Pleasure Share Youth Produce Cups Ingredients Appetite Manhood Parts Of Life Eagerness Imbecility

Book:A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature

Source: A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature

“The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.”

Thinking Mind Littles Universal Beaten Vulgar Scorn Benevolence Eccentric Authorship Great Minds Little Minds

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors.”

Men Writing Country Wise Fame Motive Avarice Authorship Instructors

Book:The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith

Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith

“Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.”

Wretchedness Beggary

Book:The Vicar of Wakefield

Source: The Vicar of Wakefield