The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.