Humorous stories are the ones that are most hard to write, declared Mark Twain, yet the consumer is quite often put off by the popular canard that no skill is required to be humorous.

The fact is this requires far more skill than being as people who are serious often wish, as serious as they, which I am only rarely, vis-a-vising serious people in this way, with deleterious effects quite often, which in fact does not........

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