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Max Eastman was a 19th-century American writer and political activist. Max Forrester Eastman was an American writer on literature, philosophy, and society, a poet, and a prominent political activist. Moving to New York City for graduate school, Eastman became involved with radical circles in Greenwich Village. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.”
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“Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.”
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“Laughter puts your brain your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.”
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“It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.”
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