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" ... life, that the poorer the guest the better pleased he ever is with being treated ; and as some men gaze with admiration at the colours of a tulip, or the wing of a butterfly, so I was by nature an admirer of happy human faces. "
The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale - Page 2
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1791 - 276 pages
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The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale. : In Two Volumes

Oliver Goldsmith - 1780 - 106 pages
...the number. However, my wife always indfted that as they were the fame fieft and blood, they mould fit with us at the fame table. So that if we had not...generally had very happy friends about us ; for this remark will hold good through life, that the poorer the gueft, the better pleafed he ever is with being...
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The vicar of Wakefield [by O. Goldsmith]. 2 vols. [in 1].

Oliver Goldsmith - 1792 - 252 pages
...the halt, amongft the number. However, my wife always infifted, that as they were the fame_/7<?/Z> and blood, they fhould fit with us at the fame table. So that if we had not very rich, w« generally had very happy friends about us ; for this remark will hold good through life, that the...
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The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale

Oliver Goldsmith - 1799 - 214 pages
...wife always insisted, thar, as they were the same flesh and blood, they should sit with ut at the same table. So that if we had not very rich, we generally had very happy friends about us ; for this remark will hold good through life, that the poorer the guest, the better pleased he ever is with being...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith ...

Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1801 - 424 pages
...maimed, and the halt amongft the number. However, my wife always infifted that as they were the fame fejh and blood, they fhould fit with us at the fame table....generally 'had very happy friends about us ; for this remark will hold good through life, that the poorer the gueft, the better pleafed he ever is with being...
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Select works of Oliver Goldsmith, Containing i. The vicar of Wakefield, ii ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 366 pages
...'vife always infiftod that as they were the fame 'flc/h and bfvod, they fhoiild fit with us at the tre table. So that if we had not very rich, we generally had very happy friends about us ; for this rertiark wall hold good through life, Ait the poorer the gueft, the better pleafed he ever is with...
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The miscellaneous works of OLiver Goldsmith [ed. by S. Rose].

Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 438 pages
...wife always insisted that as they were the s&mejlesh and blood, they should sit with us at the same table. So that if we had not very rich, we generally had very happy friends about us ; for this remark will hold good through life, that the poorer the guest, the better pleased he ever is with being...
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The vicar of Wakefield. Whittingham's ed

Oliver Goldsmith - 1815 - 268 pages
...wife always insisted that as they were the same^fosA and blood, they should sit with us at the same table : so that if we had not very rich, we generally had very happy friends about us ; for this remark will hold good through life, that the poorer the guest the better pleased he ever is with being...
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The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical ..., Volume 23

English literature - 1820 - 406 pages
...wife always insisted, that as they were the same flesh and blood, they should sit with us at the same table : so that, if we had not very rich, we generally had very happy friends about us; for this remark will hold good through life, that the poorer the guest, the better pleased he ever is with being...
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The novels of Sterne, Goldsmith, dr. Johnson, Mackenzie, Horace Walpole, and ...

Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 762 pages
...wife always insisted that as they were the s&mejles/i and blood, they should sit with us at the same point of getting rid of this unfortunate desubligeant ; it stands swinging reproaches at you ever remark will hold good through life, that the poorer the guest, the better pleased he ever is with being...
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The Novels of Sterne, Goldsmith, Dr. Johnson, Mackenzie, Horace Walpole, and ...

Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 pages
...insisted that as they were the aameJlesH and blood, they should sit with us at the same table : so that it we had not very rich, we generally had very happy, friends about us ; for this remark will hold good through life, that the poorer the guest, the better pleased he ever is with being...
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