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The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.

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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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