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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.


Agnes Repplier  Agnes Repplier
Tags: Nature  Laughter  Our  Springs  Part 

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Agnes Repplier (April 1, 1855[1] – December 15, 1950) was an American essayist.

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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

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 Tags: Democracy Sorry Possibilities Forever
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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 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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 Tags: Man Self True Pleasure Fabric Lives
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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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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

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 Tags: Past Die Present Little Common Save
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.

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 Tags: World Rights Thinkers Should Mirth
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

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