Quote 1299




George Bernard Shaw
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.



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1990: The Fourth--and by Far the Most Recent--637 Best Things Anybody Eversaid, ISBN 9780689121005, Publisher Atheneum, Evidence




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