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Oliver Goldsmith Novelist
Gender: Male
Citizenship: Kingdom of Ireland
Born: Nov 10, 1730
Died: Apr 4, 1774
Oliver Goldsmith was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield, his pastoral poem The Deserted Village, and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man and She Stoops to Conquer. 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".
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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