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We laugh , when children , at the sudden removing of a pasteboard mask : we laugh , when grown up , more gravely at the tearing off the mask of deceit . We laugh at absurdity ; we laugh at deformity . We laugh at a bottle - nose in a ...
We laugh , when children , at the sudden removing of a pasteboard mask : we laugh , when grown up , more gravely at the tearing off the mask of deceit . We laugh at absurdity ; we laugh at deformity . We laugh at a bottle - nose in a ...
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Women laugh at their lovers . We laugh at a damned author , in spite of our teeth , and though he may be our friend . There is something in the misfortunes of our best friends that pleases us . ' We laugh at people on the top of a stage ...
Women laugh at their lovers . We laugh at a damned author , in spite of our teeth , and though he may be our friend . There is something in the misfortunes of our best friends that pleases us . ' We laugh at people on the top of a stage ...
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I will only add by way of general caution , that there is nothing more ridiculous than laughter without a cause , nor any thing more troublesome than what are called laughing people . A professed laugher is as contemptible and tiresome ...
I will only add by way of general caution , that there is nothing more ridiculous than laughter without a cause , nor any thing more troublesome than what are called laughing people . A professed laugher is as contemptible and tiresome ...
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| Title | The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6 The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Percival Presland Howe |
| Author | William Hazlitt |
| Editors | Percival Presland Howe, Alfred Rayney Waller, Arnold Glover |
| Compiled by | James Thornton |
| Publisher | J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 16 Jul 2007 |
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