| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 25497 |
| QUOTATION: | Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Letter, February 1759, to his brother Henry Goldsmith. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Goldsmith Collection. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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