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Quotation from The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
“I was ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.”
The Vicar of Wakefield, Chapter I (Gutenberg #2667: The Vicar of Wakefield)
The opening sentence of the novel.
Citation: "I was ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population." — Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield, Chapter I (Gutenberg #2667: The Vicar of Wakefield). (id the-vicar-of-wakefield-q1)
