William Collins quote

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.
William Collins
William Collins
Born: Dec 25, 1721
Died: Jun 12, 1759

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Humor, Think, Way, Easily, Weakening, Something, More, Take, Him, Reader, Very, Use, Serious, Thing

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Alexander Pope, Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Keats, John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, William Blake, William Wordsworth

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