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“ …The more enormous our wealth, the more extensive our fears, all our possessions are paled up with new edicts every day, and hung round with gibbets to scare every invader. ”

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Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

~ Oliver Goldsmith

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In all my wanderings through this world of care,In all my griefs -- and God has given my share --I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown,Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down;To husband out life's taper at the close,And keep the flame from wasting, by repose:I still had hopes, for pride attends us still,Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd skill,Around my fire an evening group to draw,And tell of all I felt, and all I saw;And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue,Pants to the place from whence at first she flew,I still had hopes, my long vexations past,Here to return -- and die at home at last.

~ Oliver Goldsmith

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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

~ Oliver Goldsmith

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I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

~ Oliver Goldsmith

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