Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Humor

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  1. If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called Damn It.

  2. If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

  3. One of the main conveniences of marriage is that if you can't stand a visitor, you can pass him along to your wife.

  4. We may use Lichtenberg's writings as the most wonderful dowsing rod: wherever he makes a joke, there a problem lies hidden.

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