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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

Wit enables us to act rudely with impunity.

—La Rochefoucauld, 1678

No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.

—Maria Edgeworth, 1809

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

—Philip Sidney, 1582

Jokes are grievances.

—Marshall McLuhan, 1969
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