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  • True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.

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    Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.287

  • Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity; it is that which gives value to every character. The ignorant peasant, without fault, is greater than the philosopher with many; for what is genius or courage without a heart?

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    "The Vicar of Wakefield".

  • What is genius or courage without a heart?

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

  • Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

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    'She Stoops to Conquer' (1773) act 1, sc. 1, song
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Oliver Goldsmith

  • Born: November 10, 1730
  • Died: April 4, 1774
  • Occupation: Novelist
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