Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never been quite able to determine.

Edgar Allan Poe

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• Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never been quite able to determine.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Joke
  • Fat
  • Predisposes