I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man of sense, his actions those of a fool.


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

Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man...

I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man...

I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man...

I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man...