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I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.

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Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

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I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not the soldier's which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the lady's, which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these: but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sadness.

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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

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I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.

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Atlee is a very modest man. And with reason.

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"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more."

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If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

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...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.

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... As to sleep, you know, I never sleep now. I might be a Watchman, except that I don't get any pay, and he's got nothing on his mind.

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"Ah, Miss, hope is an excellent thing for such as has the spirits to bear it!" said Mrs Wickam, shaking her head. "My own spirits is not equal to it, but I don't owe it any grudge. I envys them that is so blest!"

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" ... It is not my desire to wound the feelings of any person with whom I am connected in family bonds. I may be a hypocrite," said Mr. Pecksniff, cuttingly, "but I am not a brute."

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There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

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If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go.

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When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.

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I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt . . .

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The French complain of everything, and always.

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Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking.

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