It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
Agnes Repplier
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- It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
- Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
- Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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