# Quote — Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield

> The only art her guilt to cover,
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> To hide her shame from every eye,
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> To give repentance to her lover,
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> And wring his bosom——is to die.

- Author: [Oliver Goldsmith](https://www.leafyquotes.com/oliver-goldsmith.md)
- Book: [The Vicar of Wakefield](https://www.leafyquotes.com/oliver-goldsmith/the-vicar-of-wakefield.md)
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- Topics: [death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death.md), [guilt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/guilt.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/oliver-goldsmith/the-vicar-of-wakefield/the-only-art

## More from this book

> By the living jingo, she was all of a muck of sweat.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/oliver-goldsmith/the-vicar-of-wakefield/by-the-living.md)

> When lovely woman stoops to folly,
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> And finds too late that men betray,
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> What charm can soothe her melancholy,
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> What art can wash her guilt away?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/oliver-goldsmith/the-vicar-of-wakefield/when-lovely-woman.md)

Topics: [guilt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/guilt.md)

> A kind and gentle heart he had,
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> To comfort friends and foes;
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> The naked every day he clad
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> When he put on his clothes.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/oliver-goldsmith/the-vicar-of-wakefield/a-kind-and.md)

Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md)