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Quotes of the Day for 12 December 2004 - Laughter

Nitrous oxide, commonly called laughing gas, was first used as a dental anesthetic on behalf of Dr Horace Wells of Hartford, Connecticut on this day in 1844. Dr Wells was a brave experimenter - after having seen nitrous oxide administered as an entertainment, he actually took the gas himself and had another dentist extract one of Wells' molars the following day.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
     - Agnes Repplier, 1855 - 1950

The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
     - Bennett Alfred Cerf, 1898 - 1971

If it's sanity you are after, there is no recipe like laughter.
     - Henry Elliot

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.
     - Theodore Seuss Geisel, 1904 - 1991

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
     - Victor Hugo, 1802 - 1885

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
     - William Arthur Ward, 1921 - 1994

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