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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For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. – Thomas Carlyle

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When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of mans soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances. – Thomas Carlyle

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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. – Yiddish Proverb

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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul. – Thomas Mann

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So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter. – Gordon W. Allport

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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks. – Henri Bergson

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