Ocupation: Novelist
Life: November 10, 1730 - April 4, 1774
Birthday: November 10
Death: April 4
True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.
source: Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith, ed. by P. Cunningham”, p.165
topic: Law, Generosity, Sovereign, True Generosity