Quote#Wisdom
Hard was their lodging, homely was their food
Quote bySamuel Garth · 1661–1719
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Claremont, line 148, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "And learn the luxury of doing good", Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, line 22; George Crabbe, Tales of the Hall, book iii; "If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, an.
English (original)
Hard was their lodging, homely was their food; For all their luxury was doing good.
— Samuel Garth
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