You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThe best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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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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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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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, ‘Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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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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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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