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... The Mysterious Stranger: A Romance - Página 136por Mark Twain - 1916 - 150 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Mark Twain - 1922 - 342 páginas
...and was only brass. One day when he was in this vein he mentioned a detail — the sense of humor. I cheered up then, and took issue. I said we possessed...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,... | |
| Mark Twain - 1922 - 338 páginas
...ably one really effective weapon — laughter. Power, money, persuasion, suppHcaHonTpersecutton — these can lift at a colossal humbug — push it a...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,... | |
| Mark Twain - 1923 - 352 páginas
...and laugh at them — and by laughing at them destroy them? E£Ly£ULE&£jnJfe^ a^jjf JB^JJ^XJ^^tiYe. weapon— laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication,...laughter nothing can stand. You are always fussing and fighting with your other weapons. Do you ever use that one? Noj~ you leave it lying rusting. As a race,... | |
| Philip Wagner - 1966 - 49 páginas
...Other weapons might, with time and diligence, make some impression on humbug, but as Mark Twain said, "only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast." The fourth was the care with which he placed his readers, those he wanted to persuade, on his side... | |
| Mark Twain - 2005 - 850 páginas
...and was only brass. One day when he was in this vein he mentioned a detail — the sense of humor. I cheered up then, and took issue. I said we possessed...laughter nothing can stand. You are always fussing and fighting with other weapons. Do you ever use that one? No; you leave it lying rusting. As a race, do... | |
| Catherine H. Zuckert - 1990 - 294 páginas
...Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution — these can lift at a colossal humbug, . . . weaken it a little, century by century; but only Laughter...blast. Against the assault of Laughter, nothing can stand.18 1f fear be more fundamental than compassion and if human beings fear ridicule — as the obverse... | |
| James S. Leonard, Thomas Tenney, Thadious M. Davis - 1992 - 292 páginas
...in The Mysterious Stranger, the human race, "for all its grotesqueries and absurdities and shams has one really effective weapon — laughter. . . . Power,...Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand" (chap. 10). The design of Huckleberry Finn is artistically sure, centered in the consciousness of Huck,... | |
| Peter Gay - 1993 - 724 páginas
...supplication, persecution," can stir up hostility against humbugs. But laughter alone can blow them "to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."8 Satan speaks these lines, but he is speaking for his author. Reflections on the problematic... | |
| Barry Sanders - 1996 - 350 páginas
...persuasion, supplication, persecution — these can lift a colossal humbug — push it a lirde — weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter...at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing stands."* Nothing stands, not even more laughter. The aphorism "fighting fire with fire," as we shall... | |
| Mark Twain, Brian Collins - 1996 - 196 páginas
...was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down on the doctor's bills like everything. [Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon —...Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. Satan, in The Mysterious Stranger, ch. 10 (1916). It grieves me to think how far more profound and... | |
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