More quotes by Oliver Goldsmith
This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.
The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
O Fortune, cruellest of heavenly powers,
Why make such game of this poor life of ours?
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