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«The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor, / The varnished clock that clicked behind the door; / The chest contrived a double debt to pay, / A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
chest, chest of drawers, clicked, clicks, double bed, double door, drawer, drawers, nicely, sanded, varnish, varnished
«We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
fatigues, fireside, firesides, migration, migrations, revolutions, The Brown, undergo
«The first blow is half the battle.»
«There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.»
«The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.»
«I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and, I believe, Dorothy, you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.»
«I... chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.»
«There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.»
«Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.»
«If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
expenses, superfluities, superfluity
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