The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last,…

Oliver Goldsmith
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The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing. ✨ Oliver Goldsmith (1837). The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His Life and Writings, p.5
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Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po. ✨ Oliver Goldsmith (1825). A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature, p.843
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And learn the luxury of doing good. ✨ Oliver Goldsmith (1854). The works of Oliver Goldsmith, ed. by P. Cunningham, p.6
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The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing. ✨ Oliver Goldsmith (1837). The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His Life and Writings, p.5

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