Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the incre…

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Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. ✨ Oliver Goldsmith (1833). Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a New Life of the Author, p.178
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