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Christopher Morley

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.

Christopher Morley

Humor

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Humor comes from understanding that life mixes serious and trivial matters in unusual ways. It shows a mental ability to recognize what truly matters while noticing how these things get tangled together in daily life.

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