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A jest breaks no bones.

—Samuel Johnson, 1781

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

Some things are privileged from jest—namely, religion, matters of state, great persons, all men’s present business of importance, and any case that deserves pity.

—Francis Bacon, 1597

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

—Marty Feldman, 1969

Jesters do oft prove prophets.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1605
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