“The world's most funniest and easiest thing is to give an advice…”
Chetan Bhagat (1974) Indian author, born 1974
“The funniest things are the forbidden.”
"Notebook 18 (February–September 1879)" in Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Vol. 2 (1975), ed. Frederick Anderson, ISBN 0520025423, p. 304
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