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Quote of Mark Twain - Everything human is pathetic. The secret...


Biography - Mark Twain:

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer.
Born: 1835 - Died: 1910
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United States
United States

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.



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Quotes for: humour


Quotes

Quotes about humour:


You shall learn to laugh. Now, all higher humor begins with this, that one no longer takes one's person seriously.





Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.





Good sense and genius beget esteem and regard: Wit and humour excite love and affection.





Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.





Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.





Now, true humor begins when a man ceases to take himself seriously.











Quotes

Mark Twain also said...


Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.





It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.





Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.





Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.





If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.





The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.












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