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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
E. B. White 
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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
Thomas W. Higginson
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Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Jessamyn West
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There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
Thomas W. Higginson
25% of people like this quote