“Sudden Glory, is the passion which maketh those Grimaces called LAUGHTER.”
Thomas Hobbes book Leviathan
The First Part, Chapter 6, p. 27 (italics and spelling as per text)
Leviathan (1651)
“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, book Leviathan
The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic Pt. I Human Nature (1640) Ch. 9
Source: Leviathan
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First reported in the Annual Report of the Massachusetts Bible Society (1870), p. 27. This is actually a misquote combining phrases from different lines in an address delivered by Webster to the New York Historical Society on February 23, 1852.
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