A kiss is but a modified bite, and a fond mother, when she rapturously avers that her babe is ‘almost good enough to eat,’ merely shows that she is herself only a trifle too good to eat it.
Ambrose Bierce on comedy
The Cynic’s Word Book (1906), p. 43 (Cannibal)
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