"A pampered menial drove me from the door."

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ClergyPoets from England
Original Language: English

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The Beggar, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). This line originally began, "A liveried servant", and was altered as above by Goldsmith. Forster, Life of Goldsmith, vol. i. p. 215 (5th edition, 1871).