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- No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- There are two sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the other are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; and men's own rigtheousness, and talk much of free grace; but at the same time make rigtheousness of their discoveries, and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them.
- Jonathan Edwards
- Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor.
- Author Unknown
- It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.
- Shaftesbury
- Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
- Author Unknown
- Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.
- Helen Luke
- Good humor is a paradox. The unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable.
- Helitzer
- True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.
- Author Unknown
- It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.
- Author Unknown
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