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Such I have either learned from others or discovered from my own experience to be the commonest sources of humour. But I must repeat that
the number of ways in which one may speak wittily
are of no less infinite variety than those in which one
may speak seriously, for they depend on persons,
place, time and chances, which are numberless.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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