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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

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. – Mark Twain

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Negative humor is forgotten immediately. Its the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter childrens books. – Berkeley Breathed

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There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them. – Robert Benchley

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Its easier to sit there and say you dont like feminists because they dont have a sense of humor. – Joan Jett

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Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that. – Don Rickles

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