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• Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity. — Russell Baker
• Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. — Ambrose Bierce
• If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest… — Maya Angelou
• We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so… — C.S. Lewis
• Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night… — Victor Hugo
• Beauty imposes reverence in the Spring, Grave as the urge within the honeybuds, It wounds us as we sing. Beauty is joy… — Unknown Author
• As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout… — Saint Augustine
• The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in… — Thomas Merton
• The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis… — Ambrose Bierce
• I appear, my fellow-citizens, in your presence and in that of Heaven to bind myself by the solemnities of religious obligation to… — John Quincy Adams
• Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself… — Thomas Carlyle

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