Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) Irish physician and writer
Source: The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith
“He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.”
— Alice Hoffman, book Blackbird House
Source: Blackbird House
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Leo Tolstoy book What Men Live By
What Men Live By (1881)
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