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1707–1793 Italy
Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793) was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays.
Also known as: Goldoni, Goldoni, Carlo
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
Pamela (1750)
He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.
Pamela (1750)
A wise traveler never despises his own country.
Pamela (1750)
He who talks much cannot always talk well.
Pamela (1750)
Noble blood is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterise the great.
Pamela (1750)
He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.
Pamela (1750)
The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes inconvenient.
Pamela (1750)
Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.
La Villeggiatura (1761)
Who well begins, is half way through his task.
Il filosofo di campagna (1752)
Il mondo è un bel libro, ma poco serve a chi non lo sa leggere.
Tell me in what prudence consists.
Pamela (1750)
Laughing is peculiar to man ; but all men do not laugh for the same reason. There is the attic salt, which springs from the charm in the words, from the flash of wit, from the spirited and brilliant sally. There is the low joke, which arises from scurrility and idle conceit.
Pamela (1750)
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