I learn several great truths; as that it is impossible to see into the ways of futurity, that punishment always attends the villain, that love is the fond soother of the human breast.
Oliver GoldsmithThe ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
Oliver GoldsmithWept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won.
Oliver Goldsmith