• There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.

  Sinclair Lewis
  American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright 1885-1951
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. impertinent
2. trouble
3. doubly
4. humor
5. never
6. known

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There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble. by : Sinclair Lewis

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