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A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers. - Honore de Balzac Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. - Jacques Anatole I. France (Jacques Anatole Thibault) Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. - Karl Kraus Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it. - Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia) For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope? - Joyce Carol Oates, Ugly Irony is jesting hidden behind gravity. - John Weiss A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. - Jessamyn West Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment. - Edwin Percy Whipple
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