LAUGHTER
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I laugh'd till I cried.—ARISTOPHANES, The Frogs
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It wasn't nice in those days to laugh. To get a real responsive audience, said [Mark] Twain, give him "the 85o unmixed male inmates of Elmira Reformatory."—WHIT BURNETT, The Literary Life & The Hell With It
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And if I laugh at any mortal thing,
'Tis that I may not weep.—BYRON, Don Juan
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The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, strategems and spoils; but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.—CARLYLE, Sartor Resartus
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.—CARLYLE, Sartor Resartus
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On this hapless earth
There's small sincerity of mirth,
And laughter oft is but an art
To drown the outcry of the heart.—HARTLEY COLERIDGE, Address to Certain Gold-fishes
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And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the sky.—HOMER, Iliad
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The laugh will then be mine.—HORACE, Epodes
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Laugh then at any but at fools or foes;
These you but anger, and you mend not those.
Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore,
So much the better, you may laugh the more.—HORACE
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To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools.—LA BRUYERE, Les Caracteres
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Anything awful makes me laugh, I misbehaved once at a funeral.—CHARLES LAMB
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Laughter is the joyous, universal evergreen of life.—LINCOLN
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A fit of laughter which has been indulged to excess almost always produces a violent reaction.—PLATO, The Republic
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He is not laughed at, that laughs at himself first.—Proverb
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Laugh yourself into stitches.—SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night
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Laugh and be fat.—JOHN TAYLOR
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Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.—ELLA W. WILCOX, Solitude
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.—OSCAR WILDE, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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