It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
From Agnes Repplier
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.
We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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