William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
"On Wit and Humour"
Lectures on the English Comic Writers (1819)
“Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.”
As quoted in 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1988) by Robert Byrne
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