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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

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Humor

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" Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. "

" It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. "

" We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. "

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" I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. "

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" I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others. "

" I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. "

" When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh? "

" If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. "

" The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. "

" Never spend your money before you have earned it. "

" I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. "

" I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates. "

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Humor

" A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn? "

" Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd. "

" The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. "