Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThe best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
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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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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
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