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"A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity nor conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it."
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"Once you've dissected a joke, you're about where you are when you've dissected a frog. It's dead."
— Isaac Asimov
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