"Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will."
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"Learn weeping, and thou shalt laugh gaining."
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"Least at thine own things laugh."
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"She just laughed in his face and told him she'd sooner crawl in a bed with his father's leeches before she'd crawl in one with him. She stopped laughing when he put his knife in her."
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"she would die as she had lived, with an axe in her hand and a laugh upon her lips."
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"I commend you, however, for passing the time in as merry a manner as you possibly could; it is assuredly better to go laughing than crying thro' the rough journey of life."
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"When I'm depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on his movies and I watch them. I laugh and I cry and I have great pleasure."
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"Education is implication. It is not the things you say which children respect; when you say things, they very commonly laugh and do the opposite. It is the things you assume which really sink into them. It is the things you forget even to teach that they learn."
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"What a vast fraternity it is,--that of 'Hearts that Ache.' For the last three months it has seemed to me as though all society were coming to me, to drop its mask for a moment and initiate me into the mystery. How we do suffer! And we go on laughing; for, as a practical joke at our expense, life is a success."
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"The world laughs in flowers."
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"I don't ever want to let people down, so a lot of my energy goes to making people laugh and letting them know how much I care for them."
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"I have never thought of my entertainment as being able to bring about social change. I am seriously always looking for the laugh. What it did make me conscious of was having empathy for those without any power in this country. That has always stuck with me."
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"The fine line that you do when you do political comedy is, as long as you have that laugh, you're fine."
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"The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself."
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"Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!"
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"What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment."
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"there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears."
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"What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last."
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"He who laughs best today, will also laughs last."
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"But people will laugh at all sorts of things."
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