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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 might have been.

Source: Lectures on the English Comic Writers, 1819.
-- William Hazlitt, (Apr 10 1778-1830), English writer, essayist; He wrote Characters of Shakespeare's Plays, 1817; also noted for essays on value of humanity.


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