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Andrew Perlot's avatar

Humor is like virtue, one of few things that can't be taken from us. Only we can take it from ourselves when we believe the world is too horrible for humor. The irony is that the most horrible things are usually pretty funny in their absurdity. This was a great piece, Sam.

Seneca:

“We should bring ourselves to see all the vices of the crowd not as hateful but as ridiculous; and we should imitate Democritus rather than Heraclitus. For the latter, every time he went out into public, used to weep; the former used to laugh. One saw everything we do as wretchedness, the other as absurdity. Things should be made light of, and taken more easily: it is more civilized to laugh at life than to bewail it."

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⚡Thalia The Comedy Muse⚡'s avatar

So true. Although I have never been in war there are those days were it seems every appliance in the house died at the same time and there is a huge party about to happen.

"You can either laugh or cry, so you might as well laugh."

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