187 ordspråk av Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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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 doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal.
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The dog, to gain some private ends, / Went mad and bit the man.
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The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue
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The first blow is half the battle.
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The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one
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The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish
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The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing
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The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is a still greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it
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The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is a still greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it
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The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.
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The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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