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Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Goldsmith, Oliver. The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society. London: John Newbery, 1764.

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How small, of all that human hearts endure,
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!

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Goldsmith, Oliver. The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society. London: John Newbery, 1764.

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I see the rural virtues leave the land.

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Goldsmith, Oliver. The Deserted Village. London: W. Griffin, 1770, I. 398.

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Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails,
And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

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Goldsmith, Oliver. The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society. London: John Newbery, 1764.

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Our greatest glory is, not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

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The Citizen of the World

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Goldsmith, Oliver. "Letter VII." The Citizen of the World; or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher. Dublin: George and Alex. Ewing, 1762. Originally published in The Public Ledger, Jan. 1760 - Aug. 1761.

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Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;
Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade;
A breath can make them, as a breath has made:
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destroyed, can never be supplied.

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Goldsmith, Oliver. The Deserted Village. London: W. Griffin, 1770, l. 51.

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Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,
His first, best country ever is at home.

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Goldsmith, Oliver. The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society. London: John Newbery, 1764.

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

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Goldsmith, Oliver. The Good Natur'd Man. 1768, Covent Garden Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1.

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Goldsmith, Oliver. The Good-Natur'd Man. Cambridge University Press, 2013, act 1.

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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to county, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond.