The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHPeople seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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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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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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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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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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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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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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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