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no man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
no man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself
conspicuous in the act of laughter.
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself
conspicuous in the act of laughter.
Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it around like marmelade.
Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it around like marmelade.
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that
which he laughs at, than that which he read more
For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that
which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.
[Lat., Discit enim citius, meminitque libentius ilud
Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.]
I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.
I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.
And if I laugh at any mortal thing,
'Tis that I may not weep.
And if I laugh at any mortal thing,
'Tis that I may not weep.