“Comedy is in act superior to tragedy and humourous reasoning superior to grandiloquent reasoning.”

Attributed by Karl Marx in Comments on the North American Events http://hiaw.org/defcon6/works/1862/10/12.html, Die Presse (12 October 1862)

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