"The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel."
— James Thurber

January 1, 1970

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"The Duchess and the Bugs", Lanterns & Lances (1961). The piece was "a response" to an award Thurber received from the Ohioana Library Association in 1953.