Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1730 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish writer and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), 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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“It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)
“Don’t let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)
“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 (1728–1774)
“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.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)