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But humor is too delicate and evanescent a thing to be extracted f

But humor is too delicate and evanescent a thing to be extracted from a book like plums from a pudding. – Beatrix, “What to Read,” The Household, supplement to Michigan Farmer and State

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I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor. – William Gilmore Simms

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A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke – and that the joke is oneself. – Clifton Paul Fadiman

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

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Humor is reason gone mad. – Groucho Marx

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