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Larry Gelbart Quote: 'Most jokes state a bitter truth. ...'

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When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.


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It's no accident that Montana is the most fiscally prudent state in the nation.


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I was briefly bitter.


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The truth is that 'The Jerusalem Post' is the most credible newspaper in Israel.


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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
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I told jokes badly.


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I don't see the point in being bitter.


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