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Quote by Bert Williams
The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator’s place and laugh at his own misfortunes.
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The quote says that genuine humor includes the ability to step back from your own troubles and see them as a spectator might. Instead of treating every misfortune as purely tragic, a person can recognize its comic side and laugh at himself. This kind of humor depends on self-awareness and the willingness not to take one’s own setbacks too seriously.
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- The American Magazine, “The Comic Side of Trouble” (January 1918), reproduced in the San Francisco Silent Film Festival program book
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