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Excerpt from The World's Wit and Humor, Vol. 8: British, Austen to ThackerayDesign? Nonsense, how can you talk so! But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes.I see no occasion for that. You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better, for, as you are as handsome as any of them, Mr. Bingley might like you the best of the p...

Excerpt from The World's Wit and Humor, Vol. 14 of 15: Russian, Scandinavian, Miscellaneous, Khemnitzer to Gorki, Holberg to Strindberg, Erasmus to SienkiewiczI have brought a rope to pull you out with. There, now, hold on tight to that end, and don't let go while I pull.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important hi...

Excerpt from The World's Wit and Humor, Vol. 9: British, Dickens to KiplingIt made me very miserable to hear it, and I looked at Mrs. Micawber's red eyes with the utmost sympathy.With the exception of the heel of a Dutch cheese, which is not adapted to the wants Of a young family, said Mrs. Micawber, there is really not a scrap of anything in the larder. I was accustomed to speak of the larder when I lived with papa and mamma, and I used the w...

Excerpt from The World's Wit and Humor, Vol. 1: An Encyclopedia of the Classic Wit and Humor of All Ages and NationsJohn W. Jones Pine Tree Ballads The Ballad of Doc Plufi. Pine Tree A Settin' Hem - Pine Tree Ballads.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art te...

Excerpt from The World's Wit and Humor: An Encyclopedia of the Classic Wit and Humor of All Ages and NationsEulenspiegel came to the court of the King of Denmark, who liked him well, and said that if he would make him some diversion, then might be have the best of shoes for his horse's hoofs. Eulenspiegel asked the king if he was minded to keep his word well and truly, and the king did answer most solemnly, Yes.Now did Eulenspiegel ride his ho...

Excerpt from The World's Wit and Humor, Vol. 10: French, Ruteboeuf to BalzacIt is because we can abstract from the Sincere fiction of foreign peoples this intimate essence of national meaning that the novel and the play have for us their larger sig nificance. But from the humor of a people we can express this intimate essence even more certainly than we can from their fiction. Show me what a man laughs at, and I will tell you what he is. The m...

Excerpt from The World's Wit and Humor, Vol. 7: British, Fielding to BurneyCmn Bmsmv Smmm (1751 - Continued. M, Calendar of the Months The Art of Pufinga -the Critic Lord Erskine' s Simile Anecdotes.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digita...

Excerpt from The World's Wit and Humor, Vol. 11: French, International Caricature, Musset to Rostand, Two Centuries of CartoonsI need not state that my works had crossed the Channel and that the English were quarreling for Copies. They quarrel over everything except what they understand. One day I received a letter from a young hen-blackbird in London.I have read your poem, she said, and it has inspired me with such admiration for you that I h...