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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.”
Richard Phillips Feynman
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It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.”
Katherine Mansfield
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The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed.”
Nicolas Chamfort
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We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.”
Jean de La Bruyere
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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”
Oscar Wilde
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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To laugh is proper to man.”
François Rabelais
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Gargantua and Pantagruel
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A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
Charlie Chaplin
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Earth laughs in flowers.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Since I learned to laugh at myself, I'm never bored.”
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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.”
Oscar Wilde
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And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Without the laughter, there would be no Tao.”
Laozi
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Tao Te Ching
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What forbids me from telling the truth with a laugh?”
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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Yet it is better to accept public morals and human vices calmly without bursting into either laughter or tears.”
Seneca
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On Tranquility of the Mind
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.”
Victor Hugo
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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.”
Nicolas Chamfort
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