Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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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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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral lows, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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