Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the proces…

E. B. White
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Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind. ✨ E. B. WHITE (1954). The SECOND TREE from the CORNER
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