The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHTenderness is a virtue.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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