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A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener'...  
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.  
A smile is the universal welcome.  
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the st...  
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.  
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest...  
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.   Humor
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know...  
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a...  
Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together...  
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.   Art