Quote by Agnes Repplier
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batte

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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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! – Agnes Repplier

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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. – Agnes Repplier

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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. – Agnes Repplier

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Laughing is not always the proof of a mind at ease. – Proverb

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

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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. – Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus

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