While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his. Kindness is a brief preface to ten volumes of exaction. Laughter is an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable. Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. Marriage is the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment. Perfection is an imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. |