“ Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. ”
Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897). copy citation
| Author | Mark Twain |
|---|---|
| Source | Following the Equator |
| Topic | sorrow joy |
| Date | 1897 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2895/2895-h/2895-h.htm |
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“we have had the wonderful dust-storm; and we have considered the phenomenon of an almost empty hot wilderness half as big as the United States, with a narrow belt of civilization, population, and good climate around it.
CHAPTER X.
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
—Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar.
Captain Cook found Australia in 1770, and eighteen years later the British Government began to transport convicts to it. Altogether, New South Wales received 83,000 in 53 years.”
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