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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

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

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

—Philip Sidney, 1582

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
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