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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

— Christopher Morley An Enchanted Life : An Adept's Guide to Masterful Magick‎ (2001)

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Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

Where the Blue Begins (1922)

There is only one success … to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Where the Blue Begins (1922)

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

The Haunted Bookshop (1919)

The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.

Travels in Philadelphia (1920)

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Thunder on the Left (1925)

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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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