"Even the gods love jokes."
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"They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity."
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"If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans."
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"Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor of philosophy, whom I have repeatedly and urgently requested to look at the moon and planets through my glass, [telescope] which he pertinaciously refuses to do. Why are you not here? what shouts of laughter we should have at this glorious folly! and to hear the professor of philosophy at Pisa laboring before the grand duke with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky."
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"Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?"
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"If the phone doesn't ring, it's me."
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"Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man"
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"It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it."
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"Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end."
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"What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams."
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"Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it."
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"Laughter makes the bitter swallowing of truth, for some, a little easier."
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"To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others."
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"I love people who make me laugh!"
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"There is nothing more distressing ... than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as a cause for laughter. Such laughter is worse than the crackling of thorns under a pot, for it denotes not merely the vacant mind, but the heart in which high emotions have been choked before they could grow to fruition."
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"To describe happiness is to diminish it."
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"Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life.""
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"Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end."
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"I have a good, hearty laugh and an energetic handshake, and those are trump cards."
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"Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done."
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