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“Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.”

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Author:Michel de Montaigne

“The man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.”

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Book:Moby-Dick: or, The Whale

Source: Moby-Dick: or, The Whale

“Robin [Williams] was a world treasure. As we mourn his tragic death, we must remember him for the great waves of laughter that he was able to illicit from us, how his humor and insights - though they came from a place of pain and uncertainty - connected us and reminded us of how flawed and fragile...how human we are. How we are capable of moments of inspired transcendence and others of unspeakable despair.”

“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.”

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Author:William Hazlitt

“Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.”

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Author:Holbrook Jackson

“I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.”

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Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”

“To describe happiness is to diminish it.”

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Book:The private diaries of Stendhal [pseud.]

Source: The private diaries of Stendhal [pseud.]

“He who laughs.....lasts.”

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Book:Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist

Source: Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist

“Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.”

“In some respects, if I had to choose just one (virtue on the spiritual path), I'd feel safest with a sense of humor. We pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, have a good laugh about human nature, and get on with our journeys.”

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Author:Bo Lozoff

“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 relieves 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.”