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Quote by Francis Bacon
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not;

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. – Francis Bacon

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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. – Francis Bacon

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Fortune
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Wives are young mens mistresses, companions for middle age, and old mens nurses. – Francis Bacon

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Age
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As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time. – Francis Bacon

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Humor
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Humor is reason gone mad. – Groucho Marx

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Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost. – James Thurber

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We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor. – Bobby Clarke

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Humor

I was a little shocked at how adult some of the humor was, because I was never that into animation before and when I watched Shrek I really laughed out loud. – Cheryl Hines

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Humor

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The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. – Sigmund Freud

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The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it? – Georges Duhamel

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Theory helps us bear our ignorance of facts. – George Santayana, The Sense of Beauty, 1896

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