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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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. – Abraham Lincoln

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Laughing is not always the proof of a mind at ease. – Proverb

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Some men laugh habitually in falsetto…. We remember once to have heard a feminine laugh so painfully and regularly tuneful that it could literally have been reduced to musical notation. – “Laughter,” in The Spectator for the week ending Saturday, January 19, 1889

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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable. – Anon.

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