The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

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It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

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The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

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The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.

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I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.

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A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.

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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

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Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

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Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!

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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

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