Oliver Goldsmith Quote

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.


The Citizen of the World Or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friend in the East (ed. 1794)


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...

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...

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...

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...