You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his shoulders than to condemn.
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:we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
Permalink to quote #69 I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are co…
Permalink to quote #71 :the future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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