Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
Oliver GoldsmithThose who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.
Oliver GoldsmithBlest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.
Oliver GoldsmithLike the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!
Oliver Goldsmith