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Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
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Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of relieving only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.
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In all the silent manliness of grief.
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Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!
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Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
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Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they.
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