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Jesters do oft prove prophets.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1605

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

—Marty Feldman, 1969

There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh.

—Catullus, c. 60 BC

Jests and scoffs do lessen majesty and greatness and should be far from great personages and men of wisdom.

—Henry Peacham, 1622

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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