I can think of many amusing parallels. For example, 'the Borough of ... announces: Miss Jones, the splendid principal of our grammar school, h...
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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!
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A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
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It was solitary, because they believed that He is nearer to us in solitude, and there were no priests authorized to come between a man and his Maker.
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The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.
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It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
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A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.
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The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
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Freud makes much of the distinction between jokes which just barely make sense, and those whose main value lies in the sense they make. He cal...
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Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
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A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
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I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest a while.
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My work is done why wait.
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I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.
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Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity.
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Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.
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My work is done, why wait?
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