Quote by Mark Twain
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preac

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. – Mark Twain

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Substitute damn every time youre inclined to write very your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. – Mark Twain

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I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things it makes a character much more three-dimensional if theres some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that. – Colm Meaney

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

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Im not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor. – Anjelica Huston

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Sometimes the best cure for life’s woes is a sense of humor. – Frank Sonnenberg

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