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“The English language may hold a more disagreeable combination of words than The doctor will see you now. I am willing to concede something to the phrase Have you anything to say before the current is turned on?”
—Robert Benchley (18891945)
“As the tragic writer rids us of what is petty and ignoble in our nature, so also the humorist rids us of what is cautious, calculating, and priggishabout half of our social conscience, indeed. Both of them permit us, in blessed moments of revelation, to soar above the common level of our lives.”
—Robertson Davies (b. 1913)
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