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  • And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

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    'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 51

  • Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please.

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    Oliver Goldsmith (1819). “Letters From A Citizen Of The World: To His Friends In The East”, p.135

  • A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty.

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    "On the Ladies' Passion for Levelling All Distinction of Dress". Essay by Oliver Goldsmith,

  • Prudery is ignorance.

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Oliver Goldsmith

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