English Manner

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    The mob has many heads but no brains.
    —17th-century English proverb, collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)

    You said that my manner in that book was not serious enough—that I made people laugh in my most earnest moments. But why should I not? Why should humor and laughter be excommunicated? Suppose the world were only one of God’s jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)