Joseph Addison Quotes About Laughter
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Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.
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Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.
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The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.
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It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation but what is made up of a few game-phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots arranged together in different figures. Would not a man laugh to hear any one of his species complaining that life is short?
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
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