[Malipiero's advice to Casanova.] If you wish your audience to cry, you must shed tears yourself, but if you wish to make them laugh you must contrive to look as serious as a judge.
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Memoirs (trans. Machen 1894), book 1 (Venetian Years), chap. 14Giacomo Casanova (Jacques Casanova de Seingal)
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