Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, b…

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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. ✨ Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography, p.151, University of Missouri Press
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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. ✨ Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography, p.151, University of Missouri Press

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