Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
AGNES REPPLIERScience may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
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The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another’s attention to their presence.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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