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“The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.”

Nations Secret Laughing Strikes Compunction

Author:Peter Ackroyd

“What is this Charity, this clinking of money between strangers, and when did Charity cease to be a comforting and secret thing between one friend and another? Does Love make her voice heard through a committee, does Love employ an almoner to convey her message to her neighbor? ... The real Love knows her neighbor face to face, and laughs with him and weeps with him, and eats and drinks with him, so that at last, when his black day dawns, she may share with him, not what she can spare, but all that she has.”

Knows May Doe Real Lasts Faces Black Voice Secret Laughing Heard Share Drink Messages Charity Stranger Neighbor Cease Dawn Real Love Spares Committees Comforting Face To Face One Friend Black Day

Book:Living Alone

Source: Living Alone

“Most people just laugh when they hear that the secret to success is giving. Then again, most people are nowhere near as successful as they wish they were.”

People Giving Wish Secret Laughing Successful Secret To Success

Book:The Go-Giver, Expanded Edition: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea

Source: The Go-Giver, Expanded Edition: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea

“I have a secret goal with my editor - he has asthma and uses his inhaler, and after I send him a new manuscript, I'll have his assistant phone me and tell me how many times he had to get his inhaler out while reading a draft. It's my secret laugh meter.”

Use Reading Goal Secret Laughing Phones Editors Assistants Manuscripts Meter Asthma

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I have always tried to use humor to "help ever" and "hurt never," for I find that to laugh is like swallowing a secret that Santa Claus farted.”

Helping Use Humor Funny Hurt Secret Laughing Santa Santa Claus Swallowing

Author:David Cross

“I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.”

Facts Secret Laughing Valentine Valentine's Day Tarts

Author:Hugh Grant

“Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it ... what you wish in your secret heart were not funny, but it is, and you must laugh. Humor is your own unconscious therapy. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you.”

Heart May Earth Wish Secret Laughing Air Havens Ought Summer Rain Welcome Therapy Unconscious Summer Rain

Book:The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs

Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs