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Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.

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We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

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Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

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That laugther costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.

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Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

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A good laugh is sunshine in a house.

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When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.

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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

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May you have a lawsuit in which you know you are in the right

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We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.

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