Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyerand its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called "The Great American Novel"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 November 1835
CountryUnited States of America
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The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
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Wit and Humor -- if any difference, it is in duration -- lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage -- the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.
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There are many humorous things in the world, among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages
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Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
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If there are no cigars in heaven, I shall not go.
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I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.
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There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.
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I reverently believe that the maker who made us all makes everything in New England, but the weather. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather-clerks factory who experiment and learn how, in New England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather for countries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhere if they don't get it.
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I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two million dollars.
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Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.
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They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
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But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go!
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... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.
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... all the modern inconveniences ...