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A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. - James Boswell
Attribution: James Boswell (1740–1795), Scottish author. (Originally published 1791). Life of Johnson, June 1784, p. 1309, Oxford University Press (1980). Contradicting Samuel Johnson, who had “a general aversion to a pun,” ibid.

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