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Jacob August Riis quote: "The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense."

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

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God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown. Friedrich Nietzsche
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Human beings are human beings. They say what they want, don't they? They used to say it across the fence while they were hanging wash. Now they just say it on the Internet. Dennis Miller
The poor child was the drudge of the household, and was always in the wrong. He was, however, the most bright and discreet of all the brothers; and if he spoke little, he heard and thought the more. Charles Perrault
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