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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded - George Orwell
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On this day:
The Great Comet - 1106, Napoleonic Wars Begin - 1793, Oxford English Dictionary 1st published - 1884, First Times Crossword - 1930, East Coast floods kill hundreds - 1953
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