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Quote by Oliver Goldsmith
The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress. - Oliver Go

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress. – Oliver Goldsmith

Other quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Romance
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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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Oliver Goldsmith
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People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding. – Wilhelm Stekel

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Psychology

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. – Carl Jung

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Psychology

A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality. – Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave

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Psychology

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. – Alan Watts

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Psychology

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Though lovers be lost love shall not. – Dylan Thomas

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If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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I do believe that when you know better, you do better. You know what was wrong about the last relationship, and hopefully you will do better the next time. – Elisha Cuthbert

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