“You know, Gilan, sarcasm isn't the lowest form of wit. It's not even wit at all.”
John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower
“You know, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.'
'And yet it is still extremely funny.”
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