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“ Humour lias been well defined as thinking in fun while feeling in earust.’ The English do not approach life ntellectually ; they do not demand hat it shall conform to some rigid nental plan; "they are not convinced hat the universe can be penetrated by ‘bought; they look askance at tliose fraud first principles that seem to ,ome alien peoples the very foundations of the world; they are willing to ro to work, either in politics oi art, without a theory to sustain them ; and when they are more practical than other races, it is not—as those races frequently conclude—because they are coldly clear-sighted and unimaginative, hut because they do not busy themselves asking reason to find a key when instinct has already shown jliem . that the door is wide open. Tims, if they should think at all, they are quite likely to do a great deal of ‘thinking in fun.’ Mr J. B. Priestley.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1929, Page 2
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156THE ENGLISH Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1929, Page 2
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