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Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. - Max Eastman

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. – Max Eastman

Other quotes by Max Eastman

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. – Max Eastman

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Hope
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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. – Max Eastman

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Romantic
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Other Quotes from
Humor
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If I have not seen as far as others, it is because there were giants standing on my shoulders. – Harold Abelson

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Humor

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain. – William Howard Taft

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Humor

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors. – Bill Forsyth

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Humor

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. – Agnes Repplier

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Humor

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Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him. – Hal Borland

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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. – Pope John Paul II

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There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom. – Michel de Montaigne

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Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. – Thomas Jefferson

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