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Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.   Goldsmith, Oliver

Excerpt from English Poets of the Eighteenth Century · This quote is about wealth · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.


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Oliver Goldsmith (November 10, 1730(?) April 4, 1774) was an Irish writer and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770) (written in memory of his brother), and his plays The Good-natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1773).

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