Mark Twain Quotes About Laughter
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English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place.
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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
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Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.
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Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.
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Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
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The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
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The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.
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It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.
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Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.
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Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,—push it a little— crowd it a little—weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand. - "The Chronicle of Young Satan," Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts
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Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
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The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything.
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