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• A man's character is his fate. Heraclitu
• The draft that blows out a match makes a furnace burn better, and what prostrates a coward excites a brave man to action.
• Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.
  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)...
• LAUGHTER, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises.
  It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable....
• Q: What's stiff and excites women? A: Elvis Presley.
• There is a wide difference between general acquaintance and companionship.
  You may salute a man and exchange compliments with him daily, yet know nothing of his character, his inmost tastes and feelings....
• The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.
  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
• How much lies in laughter; the cipher-key wherewith we decipher the whole man!
  Some men wear an everlasting barren simper; in the smile of others lies the cold glitter, as of ice...
• Man's character is his fate. -- Heraclitus (540?-480? B.C.)