Quote by Oliver Goldsmith
Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the i

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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I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts. – Oliver Goldsmith

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

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Who covets more, is evermore a slave. – Robert Herrick

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

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