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"Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life."	Joseph Addison
"If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter."	Joseph Addison
"Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory."	Alan Alda
"So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter."	Gordon William Allport
"My life has been one great big joke A dance that's walked A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke When I think about myself."	Maya Angelou
"In those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love I can: they all make me laugh."	Wystan Hugh Auden
"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."	Wystan Hugh Auden
"Evelyn slapped Raymond on the back with a laugh. "You must be starved old friend. Come into my apartments, and we'll suffer through a deep breakfast of pure sunlight."	Sri da Avabhas
"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself."	Ethel Barrymore
"Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God."	Karl Barth
"Nobody ever died of laughter."	Max Beerbohm
"From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends."	Hilaire Belloc
"Laughter is an instant vacation!"	Milton Berle
"There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them."	Niels Henrik David Bohr
"If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it."	Erma Louise Bombeck
"We must laugh at man, to avoid crying for him."	Napolean Bonaparte
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."	Victor Borge
"Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass."	Rupert Brooke
"Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone."	Anthony Burgess
"Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country."	George Gordon Byron
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Bob Newhart	Clarence Seward Darrow	Dan Fielding
Dean Koontz	D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence	Edgar Watson Howe
Elbert Hubbard	Elsa Maxwell	Eric Idle
Erma Louise Bombeck	Ethel Barrymore	Eugene Lam
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky	Friedrich Nietzsche	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
George Gordon	George Gordon Byron	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Golda Meir	Gordon William Allport	Helen Hayes
Henry Ward Beecher	Henry Elliot	Henry Louis Mencken
Henry Miller	Herbert Gardner	Hilaire Belloc
Jean de LaBruyere	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Gillespie Magee	Jonathan Carroll	Joseph Addison
Josh Billings	Julius Henry Marx	J. M. Linsner
J. Russel Lynes	Kahlil Gibran	Karl Barth
Katharine Houghton Hepburn	Lewis Carroll	Martin Luther
Max Beerbohm	Max Forrester Eastman	Maya Angelou
Miguel de Cervantes	Milton Berle	Napolean Bonaparte
Nicolas Chamfort	Niels Henrik David Bohr	Norman Cousins
Orison Swett Marden	Patricia Hitchcock	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reinhold Niebuhr	Rene Descartes	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Robert	Robert Anson Heinlein	Robert Killinger
Rupert Brooke	Shirley MacLaine	Sri da Avabhas
Stephen King	Stephen Fry	Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
Terry Cohen	Theodore M. Hesburgh	Umberto Eco
Victor Borge	Victor Hugo	William Hazlitt
William Davis	Woody Allen	Wystan Hugh Auden
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