The whole nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.
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On Scotland; Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 1778. Compare: "It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding", Sydney Smith, Lady Holland's Memoir, vol. i. p. 15.Horace Walpole
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The Void is a living void
… pulsating in endless rhythms of creation
and destruction. The great Void does not
exist as Void, it embraces all
Being/non-BeingFrederick Franck
Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.)
Charles Stross
[W]ithout humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation.
John Buchan
What is called the spirit of the void is where there is nothing. It is not included in man's knowledge. Of course the void is nothingness. By knowing things that exist, you can know that which does not exist. That is the void.
Miyamoto Musashi
A really intelligent nation might be held together by far stronger forces than are derived from the purely gregarious instincts. A nation need not be a mob of slaves, clinging to one another through fear, and for the most part incapable of self-government, and begging to be led; but it might consist of vigorous self-reliant men, knit to one another by innumerable ties, into a strong, tense, and elastic organisation.
Francis Galton
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