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Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it. -- Jonathan Swift
Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart. -- Jonathan Swift
Our punning minds rejoin what logic has separated. -- Mason Cooley
A sense of humor is regarded as a sign of mental health - apart from excessive punning, which is another matter entirely. -- Helen Cresswell
There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists in a jingle of words, and is comprehended under the general name of punning. -- Joseph Addison
English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. Its the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning. -- Richard Lederer
We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We wonder at the one, but we laugh at the drollery of the other - as the world goes a pun is regarded as an imponderable commodity, all know the rank it holds in the order of pure intellect. -- Harriet Hosmer

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