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I used to think that everyone was just being funny. But now I don’t know. I mean, how can you tell?

—Andy Warhol, 1970

A jest breaks no bones.

—Samuel Johnson, 1781

Wit enables us to act rudely with impunity.

—La Rochefoucauld, 1678

A joke is at most a temporary rebellion against virtue, and its aim is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.

—George Orwell, 1945

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

—Maria Edgeworth, 1809
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