Oliver Goldsmith Quotes About Nightcap

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  • Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

    Oliver Goldsmith (1820). “Miscellaneous Works: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His Life and Writings”, p.405
  • A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day.

    Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “Letters from a Citizen of the World to His Friends in the East”, p.94
  • An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

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