"Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast."
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"Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously."
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"Laughter is the best medicine for a long and happy life. He who laughs lasts!"
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"The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself."
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"I have something I need to tell you," he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hands and look back at him. "I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though." "That's sensible of you," I say, smiling too. "We should find some paper so you can make a list or a chart or something." I feel his laughter against my side, his nose sliding along my jaw, his lips pressing my ear. "Maybe I'm already sure," he says, "and I just don't want to frighten you." I laugh a little. "Then you should know better." "Fine," he says. "Then I love you."
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"A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults."
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"The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done."
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"No one is laughable who laughs at himself."
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"As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility."
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"Total absence of humor renders life impossible."
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"But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies."
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"Laughter... is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are funny but because your own condition is funny."
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"Laughter would appear to be a physical reflex, although even if it is, this still leaves unanswered the question of why the human response to humor is a convulsive spasm of the respiratory mechanism rather than a crossing of the eyes or a waving of the arms."
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"Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech"
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"When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy."
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"She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain."
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"A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon."
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"And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss."
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"I made a circle with a smile for a mouth on yellow paper, because it was sunshiny and bright."
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"In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause."
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