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Max Beerbohm

"Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter."

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"Laughter isn't a sign of insanity but a shield against it."

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"In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter."

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"If you can laugh at yourself, you have already achieved freedom."

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"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."

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"The truth is laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought choked half strangled or surrendered to with humiliation."

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"Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list."

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"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come."

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"What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter."

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"When you laugh, you are no longer a mind, but a heart."

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"The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree."

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