Not through wrath but through laughter one slayeth. – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), “Of Reading and Writing,” Thus Spake Zarathus
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Laughter
For one seldom hears a genuine laugh nowadays, and much of the phraseology of laughter is a mere fashion of speech. There are many people whose sides have never ached from over-indulgence in the outward expression of mirth…. With some persons a wheeze or a chuckle is the utmost they can compass. – “Laughter,” in The Spectator for the week ending Saturday, January 19, 1889