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Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots. – Steve Allen

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Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor? – Frank Moore Colby

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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing. – Samuel Butler

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Its self-effacing, its hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor. – Jerry Leiber

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