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“Humor must not professedly teach, and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. By forever, I mean thirty years.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 1646dad3bff72890e232107dea42400b3b57bdabf7392e7cc285f9103a893b2a
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