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“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.” Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.” William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
“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
“APRIL 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.” Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
“He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural.” William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
“Percy wouldn’t recognize a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing Dobby’s tea cozy.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“Humor is almost always anger with its makeup on, I think, but in little towns the makeup tends to be thin.” Stephen King, Bag of Bones

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