Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and QuotationsHarold Workman Williams H.W. Wilson, 1916 - 483 pages |
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Page vi
... phlegm , bile , and black bile , and by which the disposition was determined . We find , too , that at one time a " humour " meant any animal or plant fluid , and again any kind of moisture . " The skie hangs full of vi SENSE OF HUMOR.
... phlegm , bile , and black bile , and by which the disposition was determined . We find , too , that at one time a " humour " meant any animal or plant fluid , and again any kind of moisture . " The skie hangs full of vi SENSE OF HUMOR.
Page vii
... kind , came to have a biological significance and was applied only to plant and animal life . It was restricted later within purely physiological boundaries and was applied only to those " humours " of the human body that controlled ...
... kind , came to have a biological significance and was applied only to plant and animal life . It was restricted later within purely physiological boundaries and was applied only to those " humours " of the human body that controlled ...
Page viii
... kind ! But , after all , since it is true that " one touch of humor makes the whole world grin , " what difference does it make what that humor is ; what difference why or wherefore we laugh , since somehow or other , in a sorry world ...
... kind ! But , after all , since it is true that " one touch of humor makes the whole world grin , " what difference does it make what that humor is ; what difference why or wherefore we laugh , since somehow or other , in a sorry world ...
Page x
... kind . Miss Repplier says that it is because we are a " humorous rather than a witty people that we laugh for the most part with , and not at our fellow creatures . " This , I think is something that our fellow creatures from other ...
... kind . Miss Repplier says that it is because we are a " humorous rather than a witty people that we laugh for the most part with , and not at our fellow creatures . " This , I think is something that our fellow creatures from other ...
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... kind enough to rise and pick out your legs , I will take what remains , " she said cheerfully . " Help ! Help ! " cried an Italian laborer near the mud flats of the Harlem river . " What's the matter there ? " came a voice from the ...
... kind enough to rise and pick out your legs , I will take what remains , " she said cheerfully . " Help ! Help ! " cried an Italian laborer near the mud flats of the Harlem river . " What's the matter there ? " came a voice from the ...
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