Quote by Christopher Morley
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness

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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