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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Oliver Goldsmith

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Alive Enough Humility Proud
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Company End Fools Melancholy Smile
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Fall Inspirational One Liner Success Time
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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Country Curiosity Himself Home Leaving Man Philosophy
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Affect Natural Stage
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Commerce Existence Respect Sink
When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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Art Finding Herself Love Melancholy Woman
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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Calm Future Greatness Lying Past Present Source Wisdom
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Country Culture Different Polite Treatment
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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Art Harm Joke Yourself
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Commerce Equality Friendship Slave
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Pride Talk Value
I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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Friendship Love Myself Old
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Employment Man Pleasant Poet
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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Desire Greatness Knowledge Natural Possible Reading Writing
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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Excellence Mistake Scarce Vice Virtue

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