Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails, And honour sinks…

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Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Oliver Goldsmith

1764

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Moral decline Morality Capitalism

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1764 Age of Enlightenment

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Oliver Goldsmith

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Goldsmith, Oliver. The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society. London: John Newbery, 1764.

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