Robert Louis Stevenson
Author, Poet
"Nothing like a little judicious levity."
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Levity
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
"Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"Let him be great, and love shall follow him."
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher, Statesman
"Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Writer
"In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly."
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"A land of levity is a land of guilt."
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"Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of."
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