Quote#Friendship
A kind and gentle heart he had
Quote byOliver Goldsmith · 1728–1774
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 17, An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, st. 3..
English (original)
A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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