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Quote by Max Eastman
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you ha

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. – Max Eastman

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Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. – Max Eastman

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Emotions
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Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end. – Max Eastman

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Its very hard to write humor. – Mark Strand

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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. Its jolted by every pebble on the road. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Well, its a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader… But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better. – Garry Trudeau

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Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it. – George Saintsbury

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