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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Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect! – Thomas Carlyle

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No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors. – Thomas Carlyle

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You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself. – Ethel Barrymore

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A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes corners and unexplored crannies of the system that are unresponsive to most other exercise methods. – Author unknown, from an editorial in New-York Tribune, quoted in Quotations for

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If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. – Proverb

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There can never be enough said of the virtues, dangers, the power of a shared laugh. – Françoise Sagan

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Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. – Ani DiFranco

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It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad. – La Rochefoucauld, Reflections, 1665

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