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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. – Thomas Carlyle

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Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, its fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; its a mutual hostility. – Thomas Carlyle

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