The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
OLIVER GOLDSMITHRomance 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!
More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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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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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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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 company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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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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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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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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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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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 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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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