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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
Agnes Repplier 
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon
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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
Victor Borge
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When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
Thomas W. Higginson
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A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
Clifton Fadiman
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The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
Peter De Vries
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If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
Jennifer Jones
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