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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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Bad Enough Taste Unpardonable
There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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Few Naked Nudity Objectionable Truth
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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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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Feel Feeling Little Think Thinking Unwise
Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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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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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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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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