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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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And , as for a joke , the dictionary , again a present help in time of trouble , tells us at once that it is , " something said or done for the purpose of exciting a laugh . " But stay !
And , as for a joke , the dictionary , again a present help in time of trouble , tells us at once that it is , " something said or done for the purpose of exciting a laugh . " But stay !
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Congreve once told Colly Cibber that there were many witty speeches in one of Colly's plays , and many that looked witty , yet were not really what they seemed at first sight ! So a joke is not to be recognized even by its appearance or ...
Congreve once told Colly Cibber that there were many witty speeches in one of Colly's plays , and many that looked witty , yet were not really what they seemed at first sight ! So a joke is not to be recognized even by its appearance or ...
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I listened once to a distinguished Frenchman as he addressed the students in a western university chapel He was evidently astounded and embarrassed by the outbursts of laughter that greeted his mildly humorous remarks .
I listened once to a distinguished Frenchman as he addressed the students in a western university chapel He was evidently astounded and embarrassed by the outbursts of laughter that greeted his mildly humorous remarks .
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There once was a lady from Guam , Who said , " Now the sea is so calm I will swim , for a lark " ; But she met with a shark . Let us now sing the ninetieth psalm . BRICKLAYER ( to mate , who had just had a hodful of bricks fall on his ...
There once was a lady from Guam , Who said , " Now the sea is so calm I will swim , for a lark " ; But she met with a shark . Let us now sing the ninetieth psalm . BRICKLAYER ( to mate , who had just had a hodful of bricks fall on his ...
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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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