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Famous Quotes
"Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony."
More quotes about Humor
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"A joke is a very serious thing."
Winston Churchill on Humor -
"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing."
Mark Twain on Humor -
"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."
William James on Humor -
"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."
Mahatma Gandhi on Humor -
"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road."
Henry Ward Beecher on Humor
More quotes by Lionel Trilling
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"Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal."
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"We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us."
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"We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health."
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"There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination."
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"Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process."