“Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations and resentments flit away and a sunny spirit takes their place.”

—  Mark Twain

"What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us?" (1897)

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American author and humorist 1835–1910

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