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Quote by Oliver Goldsmith
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! – Oliver Goldsmith

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Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, that found me poor at first, and keep me so. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Drugs
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Oliver Goldsmith
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Aromatic plants bestow
no spicy fragrance while they grow;
but crushd or trodden to the ground,
diffuse their balmy sweets around. – Oliver Goldsmith

Category:
Smell (scent)
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Oliver Goldsmith
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Beauty
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I dont get anything for free. I pay for all my beauty treatments. – Jennifer Lopez

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The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about. – Clifford Geertz

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Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty. – Leslie Jamison

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Beauty

Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty. – Timothy Radcliffe

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