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Page 56
... humour and if they lead us to take ourselves not too seriously . When I have heard judges on the bench moralizing with unction I have asked myself whether it was possible for them to have forgotten their humanity so completely as their ...
... humour and if they lead us to take ourselves not too seriously . When I have heard judges on the bench moralizing with unction I have asked myself whether it was possible for them to have forgotten their humanity so completely as their ...
Page 67
... humour . A sense of humour leads you to take pleasure in the discrepancies of human nature ; it leads you to mistrust great professions and look for the unworthy motive that they conceal ; the dis- parity between appearance and reality ...
... humour . A sense of humour leads you to take pleasure in the discrepancies of human nature ; it leads you to mistrust great professions and look for the unworthy motive that they conceal ; the dis- parity between appearance and reality ...
Page 69
... humour . The miser was nothing but miserly , the fop foppish , and the glutton gluttonous . It never occurred to anyone that the miser might be foppish and gluttonous ; and yet we see constantly people who are ; still less , that he ...
... humour . The miser was nothing but miserly , the fop foppish , and the glutton gluttonous . It never occurred to anyone that the miser might be foppish and gluttonous ; and yet we see constantly people who are ; still less , that he ...
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