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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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. – Thomas Carlyle

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The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not…. – Thomas Carlyle

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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul. – Thomas Mann

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Carry laughter with you wherever you go. – Hugh Sidey

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I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry. – Pierre De Beaumarchais

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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! – Agnes Repplier

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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and and not by a but. – John Berger

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