There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
AGNES REPPLIERThere is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
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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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No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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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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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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