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And if , as Horace Walpole 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 ...
And if , as Horace Walpole 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 ...
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If the interpretation is ingenious , your case is already half won . Such a subject is in effect a challenge . " Now , let's see what you can make of this , " is what it implies . First get an idea ; then find something in the way of ...
If the interpretation is ingenious , your case is already half won . Such a subject is in effect a challenge . " Now , let's see what you can make of this , " is what it implies . First get an idea ; then find something in the way of ...
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For about half a mile the gamekeeper was led a swift and difficult chase . Then , worn out , the boy halted . The man seized him by the arm and said between pants : “ Have you a permit to fish on this estate ?
For about half a mile the gamekeeper was led a swift and difficult chase . Then , worn out , the boy halted . The man seized him by the arm and said between pants : “ Have you a permit to fish on this estate ?
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Oh , do tell us about a lynching you have seen yourself , " broke in half a dozen voices at once . " Well , the night before I sailed for England , " said Field , " I was giving a dinner at a hotel to a party of intimate friends when a ...
Oh , do tell us about a lynching you have seen yourself , " broke in half a dozen voices at once . " Well , the night before I sailed for England , " said Field , " I was giving a dinner at a hotel to a party of intimate friends when a ...
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With much difficulty he half dragged , half carried the drooping figure up the stairway to the second floor . " " " What floor do you live on ? " he asked . " Is this it ? " Yep . " Rather than face an irate wife who might , perhaps ...
With much difficulty he half dragged , half carried the drooping figure up the stairway to the second floor . " " " What floor do you live on ? " he asked . " Is this it ? " Yep . " Rather than face an irate wife who might , perhaps ...
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| Pealkiri | Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and Quotations |
| Editor | Harold Workman Williams |
| Compiled by | Clara Elizabeth Fanning, Harold Workman Williams, Halsey William Wilson |
| Edition | 3, reprint |
| Publisher | H.W. Wilson, 1916 |
| Original from | California Ülikool |
| Digitized | 11 dets. 2007 |
| Length | 483 pages |
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