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“Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh?”

Men Problem Laughing Mystery Honest Duty Angel Ultimate Deny Foolish Ignorant Certainty Honest Man Pulpit

Book:An Agnostic's Apology, and Other Essays

Source: An Agnostic's Apology, and Other Essays

“Little eyes must be good-tempered or they are ruined. They have no other resource. But this will beautify them enough. They are made for laughing, and, should do their duty.”

Should Littles Made Enough Eye Laughing Duty Resources Be Good Ruined

Book:Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings

Source: Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings

“He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.”

Ends Laughing Virtue Greatness Duty Laughed Ridicule Mirth

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“I am an old-fashioned storyteller. I try to make people laugh and cry. A fiction writer's duty is to entertain. If you can sneak in something profound or symbolic, so much the better.”

People Ifs Trying Fiction Laughing Cry Duty Profound Storyteller Old Fashioned Symbolic Making People Laugh Sneak Fiction Writers Sneak In

Author:W. P. Kinsella