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The Citizen of the World
A series of letters by Oliver Goldsmith, written in the voice of a fictional Chinese philosopher in London and first printed in a newspaper, then collected as a book in 1762. Through his visitor's eyes, Goldsmith gently satirises English life.
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“Our greatest glory is, not in never falling; but in rising every time we fall.”
— Oliver Goldsmith (often misattributed to Confucius), The Citizen of the World (1762), vol. 1, Letter VII. Spoken by Goldsmith's fictional Chinese narrator, who credits Confucius; the line is not found in Confucius's works (see Quote Investigator, https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/05/27/rising/). Spelling modernised from the long s.Watch on YouTube: Angela Lee Duckworth: Grit ↗Angela Lee Duckworth discusses perseverance