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Irony is jesting behind hidden gravity. - John Weiss

Irony is jesting behind hidden gravity. – John Weiss

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Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. – Karl Kraus

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Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment. – Edwin P. Whipple

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Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. – Friedrich Von Schlegel

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So the struck eagle, stretchd upon the plain,
No more through rolling clouds to soar again,
Viewd his own feather on the fatal dart,
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