Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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