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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Humor

A sense of humor is to a lonely citizen of the world what is to a shipwrecked sailor on a desert the knife with which he hews the logs to make his hut, and cuts the fruit by which he lives.
—Bettina von Hutten