Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmithwas an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield, his pastoral poem The Deserted Village, and his plays The Good-Natur'd Manand She Stoops to Conquer. He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth10 November 1730
CountryIreland
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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The watch-dog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, / And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.
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The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he; Full well the busy whisper circling round Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd. Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault; The village all declar'd how much he knew, 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too.
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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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The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.
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I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.
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Too fond of the right to pursue the expedient.
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Is he like Burke, who winds into a subject like a serpent?
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The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative
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Even children followed with endearing wile,/ And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile.