“I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.”

—  Oliver Goldsmith , book The Vicar of Wakefield

She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act I
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield

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Irish physician and writer 1728–1774

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