"Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance."

People, Chance, Comedy, Rhetoric

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"Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance."

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Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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Dean Koontz, American Author

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."