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Life would be dull and gloomy if people did not have a sense of humour, if there were no laughter. It is through humour, and laughter, that we soften some of life’s demand on us. And once we can find laughter, no matter how painful the situation might be, we can survive it.

Definitions You won’t See in The Dictionary

Boss – a person who’s always early when you’re late and always late when you’re early. - Unknown

Celebrity – celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. - Unknown

Cemetery – where there is a good word for you when you are down. - Unknown

Chemicals – noxious substances from which modern foods are made. - Unknown

Chickens – the only animals you eat before they are born and after they are dead. - Unknown

Childhood – the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth – two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. - Ambrose Bierce

Classic – something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. - Mark Twain

College – a fountain of knowledge where all go to drink. - Unknown

Committee – a body that keeps minutes and wastes hours. - Unknown

Compromise – such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. - Ambrose Bierce

Consensus – everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually. - Abba Eban

Creditor – a person who remembers things which a debtor would rather forget. - Unknown

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