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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
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Elphin
County Roscommon
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Doctor Goldsmith
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Oliverus Goldsmith
Olver Goldsmith
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Dottor Golssmith
Tom Telescope
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Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.
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And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
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Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
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