Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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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I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
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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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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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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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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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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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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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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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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