"Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs."

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Source : CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

Christopher Morley

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“There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.”
“I love to write and to get to know the people who are listening.”
“In essence, sin is all that is in opposition to God. Sin defies God; it violates His character, His law, and His covenant. It fails, as Martin Luther put it, to 'let God be God.' Sin aims to dethrone God and strives to place someone or something else upon His rightful throne.”
“Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion, constantly preaching that this world is full of misery, but the next world would be beautiful - or not, as the case may be - has forced on men the thought of fear where otherwise there might have been the happy abandon of nature.”
“You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat.”

Source : "Is this it?". www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2008.
“But our gusty emotions say to me that we have / Tasted heaven many times: these delicacies / Are left over from some larger party.”
“Hardest job in America is being a single mom. There are a lot of them and a lot of them in Baltimore and I think that they absolutely do their best. They can't keep continue to do their best if businesses flee the city.”

Source : "Baltimore remains calm after first night of mandatory curfew". "The Five" with Dana Perino, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Juan Williams, Eric Bolling and Greg Gutfeld, www.foxnews.com. April 29, 2015.
“The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.”

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