When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to t…

Eleanor Roosevelt
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When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it. ✨ Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2002). Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, p.28, Simon and Schuster
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