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Quotes from Pamela — Carlo Goldoni

1707–1793 Italy

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9 quotes

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)

Tell me in what prudence consists.
Art. In living honestly; in keeping the laws, and in maintaining a proper decorum.

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)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Carlo Goldoni (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.