"You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time"
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"if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing"
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"The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs."
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"I never made a success of a lecture delivered in a church yet. People are afraid to laugh in a church. They can't be made to do it in any possible way."
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"We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die."
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"I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a 'k' to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side."
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"Everything has its place and time. We men of the nineteen-forties can smile at the mistakes of the nineteen-thirties, and, in turn, the men of the nineteen-fifties will laugh at the mistakes of the nineteen-forties. It is this historical perspective that shall save us."
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"I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other."
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"Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried."
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"I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me."
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"I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other's company."
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"Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it."
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"TV is so seductive with a great workday. You're going to work and making people laugh, and that's fantastic."
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"I laugh at mistakes. I laugh at how you recover from mistakes."
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"I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: 'What are you laughing at? This isn't funny.' Now I realize that laughter can come from insecurity. They don't know how they should be feeling."
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"I don't know if we will ever try again because those sort of things are very hard to organise but yes, I've known Doon for years and John as well but I hadn't met Will before, and he turned out to be a good laugh."
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"Not many women will go out on a limb to make themselves really unattractive and unfeminine so you can get the laughs, but it's a great thing to do in my book."
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"It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing."
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"I laugh at my heart, and do its will"
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"And I agreed, but still, she owed us an explanation. If she was up there, down there, out there, somewhere, maybe she would laugh."
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