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Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.

Agnes Repplier

But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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Buoyant Collapsing Satisfaction Self Sunshine Trick Ugly
Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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Harden Heart Humor Sanity
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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Construct Fabric Life Men Self True
The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
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Break Carefully Easy Education Enjoyable Fostered Schoolwork Teaching Theory
The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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Country Disliked English Permit Thinking Trail
Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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Carry Earth Inept Mar May Peopled Science
The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
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Cat Few Hate Neutral People Race
to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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Civilized Consideration Giving Incapable Kindness Offence Quality Unnecessary
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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Anybody Laugh Laughing Love Really Said Wisely
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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Absurdity Civilization Palpable People Way
We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
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Cheer Departure Good Laughter Look Memories Question
A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.
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Animal Cat Eye Irresistible Kitten Mirth Open Wide World Wounder
It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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Difficult France Habit Mind Preachment Unfavurable
Necessity knows no Sunday.
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Know Necessity Sunday
Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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Always More Popular Travel Traveler
The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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Custom Pledge Universality Worth

Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.

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