A difference of taste in jokes, is a great strain on the affections. Autor: Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Quote More from Ralph Waldo Emerson “This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with i…” “Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds.” “Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet …” “But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is b…”