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Quote by Mark Twain
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. – Mark Twain

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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. – Mark Twain

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Marriage
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We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. – Mark Twain

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Rainbows
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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. – Mark Twain

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Humor
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I try to bring it across on my record, in my dress, in what I do and what I say because to me humor is important. You should have a dose of that and I guess giving it is what Im here for. – Bootsy Collins

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Humor

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and theyre short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there. – Sergio Aragones

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Humor

What were doing is fun – if you have any sense of humor at all! – Calvin Klein

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Humor

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. – Peter De Vries

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Random Quotes

As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible. – Mario Batali

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The best path through life is the highway. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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Fate & Destiny

Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Attitude

In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. Its very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away. – Jet Li

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Food