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Often Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith
- Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.
- True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.
- Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long…
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