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"He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us."
By Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh
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"Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved."
By Ann Douglas
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"Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place."
By Mark Twain
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"Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost."
By Arthur Schopenhauer
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"He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain."
By Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2
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"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
By Douglas Adams, "Last Chance to See"
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"Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit."
By Aristotle
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"Humor is just another defense against the universe."
By Mel Brooks
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"Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?"
By Dick Clark
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"Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain."
By Edward De Bono
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"Humor is also a way of saying something serious."
By T. S. Eliot
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"He was as fresh as is the month of May."
By Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, 1390
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"He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors."
By Rudyard Kipling
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"He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave."
By Sir William Drummond
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"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death."
By Saki
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
By Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146
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"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
By H. G. Wells, Outline of History (1920)
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"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
By Sir Winston Churchill
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"He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter."
By Dr. Isaac Barrow, quoted in Fifty Years of Sheffield Church Life 1866-1916 by Rev. W. Odom
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"He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying."
By Michel de Montaigne
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