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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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Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place. – Mark Twain

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Jesting is often only indigence of intellect. – Jean De La Bruyere

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Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor. – Manuel Puig

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People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature. – Roy Blount, Jr.

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