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    Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter, that you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death.

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

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

by Quintilian Found in: Laughter Quotes,
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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

by Peter Ustinov Found in: Laughter Quotes,
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Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.
[Lat., Nam risu inepto res ineptior nulla est.]

Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.
[Lat., Nam risu inepto res ineptior nulla est.]

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I am the laughter of the new-born child
On whose soft-breathing sleep an angel smiled.

I am the laughter of the new-born child
On whose soft-breathing sleep an angel smiled.

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One half the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all.

One half the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all.

by Baltasar Gracian Found in: Laughter Quotes,
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I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to
weep.
[Fr., Je me hate de read more

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to
weep.
[Fr., Je me hate de me moquer de tous, de peur d'etre oblige d'en
pleurer.]

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If every word I said could make you laugh, I'd talk forever...

If every word I said could make you laugh, I'd talk forever...

by Friedrich Nietzsche Found in: Laughter Quotes,
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no man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

no man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

by Thomas Carlyle Found in: Laughter Quotes,
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How much lies in Laughter: the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher
the whole man.

How much lies in Laughter: the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher
the whole man.

by Thomas Carlyle Found in: Laughter Quotes,
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