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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."	Joseph Addison
"If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter."	Joseph Addison
"I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor."	Edward Albee
"Housekeeping ain't no joke."	Louisa May Alcott
"Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory."	Alan Alda
"So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter."	Gordon William Allport
"It's hard to create humor because of the unfair competition from the real world."	Peter's Almanac
"Life is a joke. The only way to survive it is to find the right punchline."	Becky Alunan
"My life has been one great big joke A dance that's walked A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke When I think about myself."	Maya Angelou
"The gods too are fond of a joke."	Aristotle
"Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments."	Isaac Asimov
"The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty."	(Justin) Brooks Atkinson
"In those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love I can: they all make me laugh."	Wystan Hugh Auden
"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."	Wystan Hugh Auden
"Evelyn slapped Raymond on the back with a laugh. "You must be starved old friend. Come into my apartments, and we'll suffer through a deep breakfast of pure sunlight."	Sri da Avabhas
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."	Sir Francis Bacon
"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself."	Ethel Barrymore
"Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God."	Karl Barth
"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs -- jolted by every pebble in the road."	Henry Ward Beecher
"Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins."	Henry Ward Beecher
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Laurie E. Colwin	Lewis Carroll	Louisa May Alcott
Mae West	Mahatma Gandhi	Martin Luther
Max Beerbohm	Max Forrester Eastman	Maya Angelou
Mel Brooks	Mignon McLaughlin	Miguel de Cervantes
Milton Berle	Napolean Bonaparte	Nicolas Chamfort
Niels Henrik David Bohr	Norman Cousins	Orison Swett Marden
Owen Gleiberman	Patricia Hitchcock	Peter's Almanac
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Rebecca West	Reinhold Niebuhr
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