Accepting Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cicero is dead! Cicero is born! The laughter has filled me, filled me so very completely. I am the laughter. I am the jester.…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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— Robert Darnton

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— John Keats

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