Tag: friendship
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Oliver Goldsmith Spent Johnson’s Rent Money on Madeira
One morning in 1762, the soon-to-be-famous Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith, was woken by an urgent rapping at the door of his London lodgings. Oliver Goldsmith was bad with money “Knock, knock!” Upon opening up, there was his landlady, threatening to bring the bailiffs unless he settle his many weeks of…