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I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?”

—Book of Ecclesiastes, 225 BC

There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh.

—Catullus, c. 60 BC

Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature. Laughter hath only a scornful tickling.

—Philip Sidney, 1582

A jest breaks no bones.

—Samuel Johnson, 1781

Big head, little wit.

—French proverb
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