“The passion of laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory a…”

“The passion of laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmities of others, or with our own formerly...”

— Thomas Hobbes

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The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic Pt. I Human Nature (1640) Ch. 9

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