“It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.” — W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
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“Of all the calamities to which the condition of mortality exposes mankind, the loss of reason appears, to those who have the least spark of humanity, by far the most dreadful, and they behold that last stage of human wretchedness, with deeper commiseration than any other. But the poor wretch, who is in it, laughs and sings perhaps, and is altogether insensible of his own misery.” — Adam Smith, “Of Sympathy,” The Theory of Moral Sentiments
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“I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry; for one or other I must do.” — Samuel Richardson, Clarissa
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“If fate doesn’t make you laugh, then you don’t get the joke.” — Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
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“Music bypasses the intellect, it makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you want to dance, makes you want to have sex.” — Siobhan Fahey, Interview in G3 Magazine (November/December 2002)
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“Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the colour in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty, and your animal spirits, and you will pass for a fine man.” — William Hazlitt, On the Conduct of Life
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