Quote#Remembrance
O Memory! thou fond deceiver
Quote byOliver Goldsmith · 1728–1774
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Captivity, An Oratorio (1764), Act I..
English (original)
O Memory! thou fond deceiver.
— Oliver Goldsmith
870
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