Quote by Joseph Addison
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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it. – Joseph Addison

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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object; unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view. – Joseph Addison

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How True!
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. – Joseph Addison

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Truth
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One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter. – Joseph Addison

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Laughter
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I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose. – Woody Allen

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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration. – Robert Burns

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It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. – Author Unknown

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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul. – Thomas Mann

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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

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Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear, If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region. – Leonard Cohen

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Children make you want to start life over. – Muhammad Ali

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Do not depend on others for safety — Help yourself. – Safety saying, circa early 1900s

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