Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities
and laugh at them--and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its
poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon--laughter. Power, Money,
Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,--push
it a little-- crowd it a little--weaken it a little, century by century: but
only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault
of Laughter nothing can stand.
- "The Chronicle of Young Satan," Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts
Cartoon from
WASHINGTON (D.C.) EVENING STAR, June 29, 1907.
Laughter which cannot be suppressed is catching.
Sooner or later it washes away our defences, and undermines our dignity,
and we join in it -- ashamed of our weakness, and embittered against the
cause of its exposure, but no matter, we have to join in, there is no help
for it. - "Indiantown" |
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He laughs best who laughs least.
- autographed inscription dated Feb. 3, 1909
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