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ON THE POSSESSION OF A SENSE OF HUMOR " Man , " says Hazlitt , " is the only animal that laughs and weeps , for he is the ... At the difference between things as they are and as they ought to be we laugh , or we weep ; it would depend ...
ON THE POSSESSION OF A SENSE OF HUMOR " Man , " says Hazlitt , " is the only animal that laughs and weeps , for he is the ... At the difference between things as they are and as they ought to be we laugh , or we weep ; it would depend ...
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plate the serious - yes and ludicrous - findings of the philosophers in their attempts to define humor and to explain laughter . Consider Hobbes : " The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from the sudden ...
plate the serious - yes and ludicrous - findings of the philosophers in their attempts to define humor and to explain laughter . Consider Hobbes : " The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from the sudden ...
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Is a joke that does not produce a laugh a joke at all ? Pragmatically con sidered it is not . Agnes Repplier , writing on Humor , speaks of " those beloved writers whom we hold to be humorists because they have made us laugh .
Is a joke that does not produce a laugh a joke at all ? Pragmatically con sidered it is not . Agnes Repplier , writing on Humor , speaks of " those beloved writers whom we hold to be humorists because they have made us laugh .
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Miss Repplier says that it is because we are a " humorous rather than a witty people that we laugh for the most part ... He was evidently astounded and embarrassed by the outbursts of laughter that greeted his mildly humorous remarks .
Miss Repplier says that it is because we are a " humorous rather than a witty people that we laugh for the most part ... He was evidently astounded and embarrassed by the outbursts of laughter that greeted his mildly humorous remarks .
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And Stevenson , always wise , insists that husband and wife must be able to laugh over the same jokes - have between them many a " grouse in the gun - room " story . But there must always be exceptions if the spice of life is to be ...
And Stevenson , always wise , insists that husband and wife must be able to laugh over the same jokes - have between them many a " grouse in the gun - room " story . But there must always be exceptions if the spice of life is to be ...
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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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