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Quote by Joseph Addison
One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a plea

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter. – Joseph Addison

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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement. – Joseph Addison

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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. – Joseph Addison

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Humility
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. – Joseph Addison

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The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. – Tom Bodett

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Laughter

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

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Laughter

There is little success where there is little laughter. – Andrew Carnegie

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Laughter

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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If you are going through hell, keep going. – Sir Winston Churchill

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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once youre aboard, theres nothing you can do. – Golda Meir

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