Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHThe best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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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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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
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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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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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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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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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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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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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