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Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
Oliver Goldsmith



Biography
Author Profession: Poet
Nationality: Irish
Born: November 10, 1730
Died: April 4, 1774

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

Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.
Oliver Goldsmith

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
Oliver Goldsmith

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
Oliver Goldsmith

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
Oliver Goldsmith

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.
Oliver Goldsmith

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Oliver Goldsmith

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Words
Affronted, Art, Harm, Joke, Raw, Receive, Salt, Thee, Thou, Throw, Unless, Wilt
Definitions
Affronted, Art, Harm, Joke, Raw, Receive, Salt, Thee, Thou, Throw, Unless, Wilt
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