"But if applause throws off your timing, then you're not the kind of comedian I would like to see. All you have to do is stand there and take it."

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Conscience is a judge in every man's breast, which none can cheat or corrupt, and perhaps the only incorrupt thing about him; yet, inflexible and honest as this judge is (however polluted the bench on which he sits), no man can, in my opinion, enjoy any applause which is not there adjudged to be his due.

— Henry Fielding