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“Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.”

— Langston Hughes

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Source

Title
Wikiquote: Langston Hughes
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Context

"A Note on Humor", from The Book of Negro Humor, p. vii (1966)

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Hughes, Langston. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Langston Hughes. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Langston_Hughes

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