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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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Author of the Vicar of Wakefield
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So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
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In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.
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Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And every care resign: And we shall never, never part, My life-my all that's mine!
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Popular glory is a perfect coquette her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. True glory, on the other hand, resembles a woman of sense her admirers must play no tricks. They feel no great anxiety, for they are sure in the end of being rewarded in proportion to their merit.
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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
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As for disappointing them I should not so much mind but I can't abide to disappoint myself.
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Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.
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