People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThe best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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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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