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Expression: Wit has truth in it: Tue Jun 06, 2006 23:02 pm  Expression: Wit has truth in it:
 

Hello everybody

Could you please help me understand the given quote (Reader's Digest: July 1967) by simplifying it? I would be thankful.

" Wit has truth in it:wisecracking is simply calisthenics
with words."


Waiting...

Tom

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Expression: Wit has truth in it: Tue Jun 06, 2006 23:34 pm  Expression: Wit has truth in it:
 

Hi Tom

Humor or jokes have an element of truth. Making funny or humorous remarks is like telling the truth while giving your vocabulary a work-out.

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