Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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If Jesus Christ were to come to-day, people wouldn't even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
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What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science.
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All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
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