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• Courtesy and good-humour are often found with little real worth.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Littles, Courtesy

  "The Lives of the Most Eminent Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works".

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• In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Real, Humor, Want

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.407, Penguin

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• I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Success, God

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.56, Princeton University Press

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• Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

  Anne Lamott

  Grace, This Life, Owners

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• Good humor pokes fun at the powerful — not the weak.

  Mitali Perkins

  Fun, Powerful, Weak

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• Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Expression, Voice

  "Self-Reliance". Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841.

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• From my mother came the idea that going down to the sea repaired the spirit. That is where she walked when she was sad or worried or lonely for my father. If she had been crying, she came back composed; if she had left angry with us, she returned in good humor. So we naturally believed that there was a cleansing, purifying effect to be had; that letting the fresh wind blow through you mind and spirits as well as your hair and clothing purged black thoughts; that contemplating the ceaseless motion of the waves calmed a raging spirit.

  Robert MacNeil

  Mother, Lonely, Father

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• At last, after almost fifty years in the hopper, the most famous unpublished novel in America is in print. Who Shot the Water Buffalo? is a splendid story of comradeship in a time and place of constant peril, but it's Babbs's irrepressible exuberance and vast, affectionate good humor that make the story go. I love this novel.

  Ed McClanahan

  Years, America, Water

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• What i value more than all things, good humor.

  Thomas Jefferson

  All Things, Values

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.225

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• There is nothing like a comfortable adventure to put people in a good humor. . .

  Peter Mayle

  Adventure, People, Comfortable

  Peter Mayle (1991). “Toujours Provence”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• The Boston Globe: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival will surely go down in history as a mass event of great and positive significance in the life of the country ... That this many young people could assemble so peaceably and with such good humor in a mile-square area ... speaks volumes about their dedication to the ideal of respect for the dignity of the individual ... In a nation beset with a crescendo of violence, this is a vibrantly hopeful sign. If violence is infectious, so, happily, is nonviolence.

  Michael Lang

  Country, Art, Dedication

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• All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor.

  Graham Kerr

  Jobs, Humor, People

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• The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given - all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

  Frederic William Maitland

  Gratitude, Memories, Knowledge

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• Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery

  Charles Simmons

  Humor, Shields, Darts

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• . . . Cultivating good humor may be helpful in finding our own identity. Young people who are trying to find out who they really are often have concerns as to their ability to meet and cope with the challenges that confront them and that lie ahead. They will find that it is easier to ride over the bumps and come quickly to their own identity if they cultivate the good humor that comes naturally. It is important that we all learn to laugh at ourselves.

  James E. Faust

  Lying, People, Laughing

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• Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

  Ernest Renan

  Happiness, Joy, Mind

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• And this should go without saying. That's why I'm going to say it: Drinking and driving don't mix. Do your drinking early in the morning and get it out of the way. Then go driving while the visibility is still good.

  George Carlin

  Morning, Humorous, Drinking

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Funny, New Year, Years

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• Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.

  Joseph Addison

  Drinking, Glasses, Enemy

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1858). “The Spectator”, p.252

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• Non-comprehenders are often distressed. Not you, though-because with good humor you're blessed. After all, your thoughts went like this, I dare say: It was none but the Lord who made us that way.

  Albert Einstein

  Stress, Blessed, Way

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.65, Princeton University Press

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• A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.

  William Hazlitt

  Animal, Safety, Enemy

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• If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Giving, Spoil, Ifs

  Michel de Montaigne (1892*). “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

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• Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting.

  Washington Irving

  Wine, Oil, Ingredients

  Washington Irving (2006). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book”, p.178, Penguin

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• Caesar Flickerman asks if the president has a date in mind. "Oh, before we set a date, we better clear it with Katniss's mother," says the president. The audience gives a big laugh and the president puts his arm around me. "Maybe if the whole country puts its mind to it, we can get you married before you're thirty." "You'll probably have to pass a new law," I say with a giggle. "If that's what it takes," says the president with conspiratorial good humor. Oh, the fun we two have together.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Country, Fun

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.76, Scholastic Inc.

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• Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Humor, Acceptance, Reality

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