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Foolish indeed are those who think themselves able to formulate a theory about what makes a person laugh, Julius Caesar confided in Cicero. Caesar had read all that the Greek philosophers had to say on the subject. All is argued so simplemindedly, he declared, that it just gave him a good laugh. So it is best to just avoid such theorizing.1
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Ferm, O. (2015). Horny Priests and Their Parishioners. In: Foka, A., Liliequist, J. (eds) Laughter, Humor, and the (Un)Making of Gender. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137463654_9
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