“ Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. ”
 Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger (1916). copy citation

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“Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. You are always fussing and fighting with your other weapons. Do you ever use that one? No; you leave it lying rusting. As a race, do you ever use it at all? No; you lack sense and the courage.»
We were traveling at the time and stopped at a little city in India and looked on while a juggler did his tricks before a group of natives.” source

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