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The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

Oliver Goldsmith

Laughter, Laughing, Mind

'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 121.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Oliver Goldsmith

Laughter, Laughing, Way

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

Oliver Goldsmith

Happiness, Smile, Laughter

The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

Oliver Goldsmith

Dog, Laughter, Wind

Oliver Goldsmith (1858). “Goldsmith's Deserted village, with remarks on the analysis of sentences, exercises in parsing, notes ... and a life of the poet ... By Walter M'Leod”, p.61

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.

Oliver Goldsmith

Morning, Laughter, Writing

Oliver Goldsmith, “The Deserted VILLage”