Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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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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It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
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