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Quote by Oliver Goldsmith
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to beco

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease. – 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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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible. – Charles Stanley

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It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize. – Aristotle

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A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of societys resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization. – Wilhelm Dilthey

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The universitys business is the conservation of useless knowledge and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. – Albert J. Nock

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