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Quote by Jonathan Swift
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. – Jonathan Swift

Other quotes by Jonathan Swift

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. – Jonathan Swift

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Jonathan Swift
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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. – Jonathan Swift

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power
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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. – Christopher Morley

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I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. Whats life without a sense of humor? – Mayer Hawthorne

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Everybodys got a different sense of humor. Its just different styles. – Colin Quinn

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My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what Im talking about or not. – John Hodgman

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I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Foul water will quench fire. – English Proverb

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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance. – Ezra Pound

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To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. – Alan Coren, The Sanity Inspector, 1974

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