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He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day. But he who is in battle slain Can never rise to fight again.

Oliver Goldsmith

He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day. But he who is in battle slain Can never rise to fight again.

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About Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was a well-known Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist and poet, noted 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 is thought by some to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765).