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Page vii
This indeed has been a favorite pastime with the jugglers of words in all ages . And many have been the attempts to define humor , to define wit , to describe and differentiate them , to build high fences to keep them apart .
This indeed has been a favorite pastime with the jugglers of words in all ages . And many have been the attempts to define humor , to define wit , to describe and differentiate them , to build high fences to keep them apart .
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So a joke is not to be recognized even by its appearance or by the company it keeps . Perhaps there might be established a test of good usage . A joke would be that at which the best people laugh . Somebody - was it Mark Twain ?
So a joke is not to be recognized even by its appearance or by the company it keeps . Perhaps there might be established a test of good usage . A joke would be that at which the best people laugh . Somebody - was it Mark Twain ?
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I am a great friend to public amusements ; for they keep people from vice . - Samuel Johnson . ANATOMY TOMMY " My gran'pa wuz in th ' civil war , an ' he lost a leg or a arm in every battle he fit in ! " JOHNNY " Gee !
I am a great friend to public amusements ; for they keep people from vice . - Samuel Johnson . ANATOMY TOMMY " My gran'pa wuz in th ' civil war , an ' he lost a leg or a arm in every battle he fit in ! " JOHNNY " Gee !
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Well , " said Jimpson , " it keeps about six months ahead of my income generally . " 99 " What is the name of your automobile ? " " I don't know . " " You don't know ? What do your folks call it ? " " Oh , as to that , father always ...
Well , " said Jimpson , " it keeps about six months ahead of my income generally . " 99 " What is the name of your automobile ? " " I don't know . " " You don't know ? What do your folks call it ? " " Oh , as to that , father always ...
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If I can paralyze a person with fear he will keep still and I can run to one side of him . " In certain sections of West Virginia there is no liking for automobilists , as was evidenced in the case of a Washingtonian who was motoring in ...
If I can paralyze a person with fear he will keep still and I can run to one side of him . " In certain sections of West Virginia there is no liking for automobilists , as was evidenced in the case of a Washingtonian who was motoring in ...
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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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