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Quote by 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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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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Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success. – Oliver Goldsmith

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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss. – Doug Horton

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The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God. – Henry Jacobsen

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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. – Edward Abbey

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