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

—Book of Ecclesiastes, 225 BC

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

—Philip Sidney, 1582

There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh.

—Catullus, c. 60 BC

Wit enables us to act rudely with impunity.

—La Rochefoucauld, 1678

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

—George Eliot, 1876
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