Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish writer of novels, poems, and plays. His 1766 novel, The Vicar of Wakefield, was one of the most popular and influential literary works of 18th-century Great Britain. He also wrote the notable plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and...
—Gerald Brenan in Face of Spain
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?