The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
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20. The history of a philosophic vagabond, pursuing novelty, but losing content 21. The short continuance of friendship among the vicious, which is coeval only with mutual satisfaction 22. Offences are easily pardoned where there is love at bottom 23. None but the guilty can be long and completely miserable 24. Fresh calamities 25. No situation, however wretched it seems, but has some sort of comfort attending it 26. A reformation in the gaol. To make laws complete, they should reward as well as punish 27. The same subject continued 28. Happiness and misery rather the result of prudence than of virtue in this life. Temporal evils or felicities being regarded by heaven as things merely in themselves trifling and unworthy its care in the distribution 29. The equal dealings of providence demonstrated with regard to the happy and the miserable here below. That from the nature of pleasure and pain, the wretched must be repaid the balance of their sufferings in the life hereafter |
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