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It Is Difficult To Be Funny And Great At The Same Time. Aristophanes And Moliere And Mark Twain Must Sit Below Aristotle And Bossuet And Emerson.
-Stephen Leacock
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It Is Difficult To Be Funny And Great At The Same Time. Aristophanes And Moliere And Mark Twain Must Sit Below Aristotle And Bossuet And Emerson.
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