Oliver Goldsmith Quotes about Understanding

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Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.

Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.

Oliver Goldsmith

Integrity, Understanding, Ethics

Oliver Goldsmith (1803). “The Beauties of Goldsmith, Or, The Complete Treasury of Genius: To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author”, p.106

Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.

Oliver Goldsmith

Giving Up, Generosity, Understanding

Oliver Goldsmith (1849). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume”, p.286

Oliver Goldsmith Quotes about Understanding

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