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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.

— Agnes Repplier A Plea for Humor (1891)

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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.

It is in his pleasures that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

War will pass when injustice passes. Never before, unless hope leaves the world.

Woman Enthroned (1920)

Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the Earth peopled as ever by the inept.

Pursuit of Laughter (1936)

Parental legislation for the benefit of the weak leaves them as weak as ever ... They may go to heaven in leading-strings, but they cannot conquer Apollyon on the way.

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A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.

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The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel– a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Karl Barth The Harper Book of Quotations (1993)

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