WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sat, 10 Oct 2026 06:24:00 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg retirement old age – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Goldsmith, Oliver -- Poem (1770), “The Deserted Village,” l. 97ff https://wist.info/goldsmith-oliver/86381/ https://wist.info/goldsmith-oliver/86381/#respond Fri, 09 Oct 2026 22:56:06 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=86381 O blest retirement! friend to life’s decline,
Retreats from care that never must be mine.
How blest is he who crowns in shades like these,
A youth of labour with an age of ease.


Oliver Goldsmith (1730–1774) Irish poet, playwright, novelist
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