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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

Other quotes by Mark Twain

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging? – Mark Twain

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Integrity
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Mark Twain
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If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people. – Mark Twain

Category:
Ordinary
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Other Quotes from
Humor
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A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally. – John Ratzenberger

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Humor

And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor. – Paul McCartney

Category:
Humor

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the readers defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more. – William Collins

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Humor

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon. – Carl Hiaasen

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Humor

Random Quotes

One of the things Ive always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and to be consistent with it – like, not to change. – Peter Steele

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I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world. – Harry Connick, Jr.

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But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the very instruments that threaten to bring universal suicide. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

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By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome – Proverb

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