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Page vi
... 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.
... 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.
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kind of moisture . " The skie hangs full of humour , and I think we shall haue raine , " ran an ancient weather prophet's prediction . Which might give rise to some thoughts on the paradoxical subject of dry humor .
kind of moisture . " The skie hangs full of humour , and I think we shall haue raine , " ran an ancient weather prophet's prediction . Which might give rise to some thoughts on the paradoxical subject of dry humor .
Page viii
If this be laughter , grant us occasionally the saving grace of tears , which may be tears of sympathy , and , therefore , kind ! But , after all , since it is true that " one touch of humor makes the whole world grin , " what ...
If this be laughter , grant us occasionally the saving grace of tears , which may be tears of sympathy , and , therefore , kind ! But , after all , since it is true that " one touch of humor makes the whole world grin , " what ...
Page x
It may be that this vaunted national sense has been overestimated - exaggeration is a characteristic of that humor , any way but at least it has one of the Christian virtues - it suffereth long and is kind . Miss Repplier says that it ...
It may be that this vaunted national sense has been overestimated - exaggeration is a characteristic of that humor , any way but at least it has one of the Christian virtues - it suffereth long and is kind . Miss Repplier says that it ...
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Doctor , if you will be 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 ?
Doctor , if you will be 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 ?
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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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