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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.

Agnes Repplier (1855-1950) American writer
“A Plea for Humor,” Points of View (1891)
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Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) American writer
Interview (1956, Summer), “The Art of Fiction, No. 13,” by Marion Capron, The Paris Review, Issue 13

Collected in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, First Series (1958).
 
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