Agnes Repplier - Humor Quotes

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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.

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Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.

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The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.

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Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.

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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

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It is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.

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If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee work, of grievances, provocations, and anxieties, we should sin less against the world's good-humor. It may not be given us to add to the treasury of mirth; but there is considerable merit in not robbing it.

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