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“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.” — William Hazlitt · Lectures on the English Comic Writers. Illustrated QuoteGeek card.

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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

William Hazlitt · Lectures on the English Comic Writers

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