Quote by Oliver Goldsmith
We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our ad

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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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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There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working. – Robert Half

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Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it – Hal Borland

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Retire from work, but not from life. – M.K. Soni

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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. – Ogden Nash

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The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. – Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues

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Hopelessness has surprised me with patience. – Margaret J. Wheatley

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