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“Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.”
“How many wars have been averted by patience and persisting good will!”
“Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.”
“And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'tis that I may not weep.”
“No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.”
“The most completely wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed.”
“The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.”
“Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: for wit is news only to ignorance.”
“God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.”