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Oliver Goldsmith Quotes: Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they.
         

Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they.


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