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Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for...

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It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

Laughter puts your brain your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play...

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A smile is the universal welcome.

The Sense of Humor

Dogs laugh but they laugh with their tails.

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Max Eastman

Writer

Born: 1883-01-04

Died: 1969-03-25

Max Forrester Eastman (January 4, 1883 – March 25, 1969) was an American writer on literature, philosophy and society; a poet, and a prominent political activist. For several years, he edited The Masses. With his sister Crystal Eastman, he co-founded in 1917 The Liberator, a magazine of politics and the arts.More