…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.

Oliver Goldsmith
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More Quotes By Oliver Goldsmith
  1. Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

  2. 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,...

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

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

  5. The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

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