Comparative Essays Present and PastWarren W. Read |
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... humor is the more comfortable and more livable quality . Humorous per- sons , if their gift is genuine and not a ... HUMOR Charles S Brooks.
... humor is the more comfortable and more livable quality . Humorous per- sons , if their gift is genuine and not a ... HUMOR Charles S Brooks.
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... humor is always an ally . It never points an impertinent finger into my defects . Humorous persons do not sit like ... humor has a kindly eye and comfortable girth . Wit , if it be necessary , uses malice to score a point - like a cat it ...
... humor is always an ally . It never points an impertinent finger into my defects . Humorous persons do not sit like ... humor has a kindly eye and comfortable girth . Wit , if it be necessary , uses malice to score a point - like a cat it ...
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... humor of their pages , it appears that wit fades , whereas humor lasts . Humor uses permanent nutgalls . But is there anything more melancholy than the wit of another generation ? In the first place , this wit is intertwined with ...
... humor of their pages , it appears that wit fades , whereas humor lasts . Humor uses permanent nutgalls . But is there anything more melancholy than the wit of another generation ? In the first place , this wit is intertwined with ...
Contents
ON GOING A JOURNEY William Hazlitt | 7 |
HOLIDAY John Galsworthy | 18 |
OF FRIENDSHIP Francis Bacon | 25 |
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