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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith
Age: 43 †
Born: 1730
Born: November 10
Died: 1774
Died: April 4
Dramaturge
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Elphin
County Roscommon
Oliver Goldsmit
Doctor Goldsmith
Oliverio Goldsmith
Oliverus Goldsmith
Olver Goldsmith
Olivier Goldsmith
Dottor Golssmith
Tom Telescope
Solomon Winlove
James Willington
Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
Dr Goldsmith
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There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with gloomy reserve. This is the most dangerous state of mind accidents or friendships may lessen the louder kinds of grief, but all remedies for this must be had from within, and there despair too often finds the most deadly enemy.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
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While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
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Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they.
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All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.
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To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.
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Error is ever talkative.
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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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The first blow is half the battle.
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He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
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