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WIST Quotations<a href="https://wist.info/orwell-george/11849/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from Orwell</a><blockquote>A thing is funny when — in some way that is not actually offensive or frightening — it upsets the established order. Every joke is a tiny revolution. If you had to define humour in a single phrase, you might define it as dignity sitting on a tin-tack. Whatever destroys dignity, and brings down the mighty from their seats, preferably with a bump, is funny. And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at a curate.</blockquote>George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair] Essay (1945-07-28), “Funny, But Not Vulgar,” Leader Magazine Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/orwell-george/11849/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/orwell-george/11849/</a><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quote</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quotes</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quotation</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=deflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#deflation</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=dignity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dignity</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=funny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#funny</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humor</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=indignity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#indignity</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=joke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#joke</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=order" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#order</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=punchingup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#punchingup</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#revolution</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=upset" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#upset</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=socialorder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialorder</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=disorder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disorder</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=statusquo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#statusquo</a>

WIST Quotations<a href="https://wist.info/horace/75673/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from Horace</a><blockquote>                You sleep, gaping, On your bags of gold, adore them like hallowed Relics not meant to be touched, stare as at gorgeous Canvases. Money is meant to be spent, it buys pleasure: Did you know that? Bread, vegetables, wine, you can Buy almost everything it’s hard to live without.               [Congestis undique saccis indormis inhians et tamquam parcere sacris cogeris aut pictis tamquam gaudere tabellis. Nescis, quo valeat nummus, quem praebeat usum? Panis ematur, holus, vini sextarius, adde quis humana sibi doleat natura negatis.]</blockquote>Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 1, “Qui fit, Mæcenas,” l. 70ff (1.1.70-75) (35 BC) [tr. Raffel (1983)] Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: <a href="https://wist.info/horace/75673/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/horace/75673/</a><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quote</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quotes</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quotation</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=avarice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#avarice</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=covetousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#covetousness</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=drink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#drink</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#food</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=gold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gold</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=greed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#greed</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=hoard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hoard</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=miser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#miser</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#money</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=necessities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#necessities</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=riches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#riches</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=utility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#utility</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=wealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wealth</a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=wine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wine</a>

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