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Quotes About Good-humor

A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.
~ William Hazlitt
Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.
~ Isaac Watts
Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits; the other recreates and revives them.
~ Samuel Johnson
Good-humor is goodness and wisdom combined.
~ Owen Meredith
What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
~ Alexander Pope