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Charles Dickens1 quote
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. — Charles Dickens · 1843Charles Lamb1 quote
Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral. — Charles Lamb · 1815Francois Rabelais1 quote
To laugh is proper to man. — Francois Rabelais · 1534Mark Twain1 quote
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. — Mark Twain · 1910Max Beerbohm1 quote
Strange, when you come to think of it, that of all the countless folk who have lived before our time on this planet not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter. — Max Beerbohm · 1920Nicolas Chamfort1 quote
Of all days, the one most surely wasted is the one on which one has not laughed. — Nicolas Chamfort · 1796Oscar Wilde1 quote
The world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the only way in which it has been able to bear them. — Oscar Wilde · 1893Reinhold Niebuhr1 quote
Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer. — Reinhold Niebuhr · 1946William Hazlitt1 quote
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is stuck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. — William Hazlitt · 1818William Shakespeare1 quote
Frame your mind to mirth and merriment,
Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life. — William Shakespeare · 1594