"A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's..."
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"A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything...."
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"A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke...."
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"A smile is the universal welcome."
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"Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp..."
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"Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher..."
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"Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of..."
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"Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully...."
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"I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down...."
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"It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of..."
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"It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a..."
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"Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together...."
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"People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but..."
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"The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness...."
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"The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who..."
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