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A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

—George Eliot, 1876

Jokes are grievances.

—Marshall McLuhan, 1969

There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh.

—Catullus, c. 60 BC

No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.

—Maria Edgeworth, 1809

Jesters do oft prove prophets.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1605
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