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The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.


Alice Meynell  Alice Meynell
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Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell (née Thompson; 11 October 1847[2] – 27 November 1922[3]) was a British writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.

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Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

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The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.

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Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.

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The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest colour of the unpublished blood.

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The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

    Alice Meynell  Alice Meynell   
 Tags: Humor Laughter Sense Of Humor Sense
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Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

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Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.

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