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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In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade
Of that which once was great, is passed away.
Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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