Quote by Oliver Goldsmith
He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, for he knew when h

He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, for he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Consumerism
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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. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Retirement
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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Knowledge
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I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know. – Epicurus

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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. – Margaret Fuller

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Recognition

Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch. – Fournier

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Recognition

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them. – Immanuel Kant

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The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity. – Bryant McGill

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If I can give you some kind of knowledge of life you should listen. – Leon Spinks

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There is an ancient belief that the gods love the obscure and hate the obvious. Without benefit of divinity, modern men of similar persuasion draft provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. Section 341 is their triumph. – Martin D. Ginsburg

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I wake up every day with a smile on my face. – Henry Ian Cusick

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