Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Topic

Nature of love Nature of friendship Love Friendship

Author

Oliver Goldsmith

Source

The Good-Natur'd Man

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1768 1760s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Occupation

Playwright Poet Writer

From

Ireland Europe

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Original Citation

Goldsmith, Oliver. The Good Natur'd Man. 1768, Covent Garden Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1.

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Goldsmith, Oliver. The Good-Natur'd Man. Cambridge University Press, 2013, act 1.

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The body politic, like the human body, begins to die from its birth, and bears in itself the cause of its destruction.

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Current Citation

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Love may be a sleepy, creeping thing with some others, but it is a mighty wakening thing with me.

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Woman's at best a contradiction still.

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Alexander Pope
Source
Letters of Alexander Pope
Medium
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Language
English
Time
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Pope, Alexander. Letter to M. Blount. 1735, I. 270.

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