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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined t

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. – Thomas Carlyle

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We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility. – Thomas Carlyle

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Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing. – Ken Kesey

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