...LECTURE I.— INTRODUCTORY. ON WIT AND HUMOUR. MAN is the only animal that laughs and weeps ; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference...serious matters : we laugh at what only disappoints our expectations in trifles. We shed tears from sympathy with real and necessary distress ; as we burst...

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...LECTURE I.—INTRODUCTORY. On Wit and Humour. MAN is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference...serious matters: we laugh at what only disappoints our expectations in trifles. We shed tears from sympathy with real and necessary distress; as we burst...

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...LECTURE I.— INTRODUCTORY. On Wit and Humour. MAN is the only animal that laughs and weeps ; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference...serious matters : we laugh at what only disappoints our expectations in trifles. We shed tears from sympathy with real and necessary distress ; as we burst...

...with my hat for a writing-desk. Thackeray seems blest with an intuitive perception for distinguishing the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. " The world is a stage " and men are players, but he has a box to himself, and an opera glass with...

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...those we have been suggesting : — ' Man,' he says, ' is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference...serious matters ; we laugh at what only disappoints our expectations in trifles.' The aspects in which we have now considered Ridicule seem to harmonize well...

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