Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and QuotationsClara Elizabeth Fanning, Halsey William Wilson H.W. Wilson Company, 1916 - 483 pages |
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... once said , " Life is a comedy to those who think , a tragedy to those who feel , " it is the thinking half of humanity that , at the sight of life's incongruities , is moved to laughter , the feeling half to tears . A sense of humor ...
... once said , " Life is a comedy to those who think , a tragedy to those who feel , " it is the thinking half of humanity that , at the sight of life's incongruities , is moved to laughter , the feeling half to tears . A sense of humor ...
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... once told Colly Cibber that there were many witty speeches in one of Colly's plays , and many that looked witty , yet were not really what they seemed at first sight ! So a joke is not to be recognized even by its appearance or by the ...
... once told Colly Cibber that there were many witty speeches in one of Colly's plays , and many that looked witty , yet were not really what they seemed at first sight ! So a joke is not to be recognized even by its appearance or by the ...
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... once to a distinguished French- man as he addressed the students in a western university chapel . He was evidently astounded and embarrassed by the outbursts of laughter that greeted his mildly humorous remarks . He even stopped to ...
... once to a distinguished French- man as he addressed the students in a western university chapel . He was evidently astounded and embarrassed by the outbursts of laughter that greeted his mildly humorous remarks . He even stopped to ...
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... Once in the early part of his career , Mark Twain , at a New England banquet , grew funny at the expense of Longfellow and Emerson , then in their old age and looked upon almost as divinities . His joke fell dead , and to the end of his ...
... Once in the early part of his career , Mark Twain , at a New England banquet , grew funny at the expense of Longfellow and Emerson , then in their old age and looked upon almost as divinities . His joke fell dead , and to the end of his ...
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... once was a lady from Guam , Who said , " Now the sea is so calm I will swim , for a lark ” ; But she met with a shark . Let us now sing the ninetieth psalm . BRICKLAYER ( to mate , who had just had a hodful of bricks fall on his feet ) ...
... once was a lady from Guam , Who said , " Now the sea is so calm I will swim , for a lark ” ; But she met with a shark . Let us now sing the ninetieth psalm . BRICKLAYER ( to mate , who had just had a hodful of bricks fall on his feet ) ...
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