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Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

— Rufus Choate Dictionary of American Maxims‎ (1955)

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As quoted in Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia (1962) edited by Jacob Morton Braude, p. 50.

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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

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