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“Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.”

J. B. Priestley · Humor

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J. B. Priestley

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.

Respect

J. B. Priestley

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

Happiness

J. B. Priestley

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

Morning

J. B. Priestley

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

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