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There is a wonderful anecdote about the election of 1960:
the evening of the election, Johnson called up Kennedy
and said, 'I see that I'm winning Texas, you're losing Ohio,
and we're doing all right together in Pennsylvania.'
--Robert Dallek (b. 1934)
American historian.
In Brian Lamb _Booknotes: Stories From American History_ [2001].


My favorite story is about [Lyndon] Johnson going to visit
Harry Truman in the waning days of Johnson's presidency.
He met with Truman in Independence, Missouri, and said
to him, 'Harry, you and Bess are living in this old house
here in Independence. You're getting on in years. You may
become ill. You ought to have an army medical corpsman
living here at the house with you.' Truman was supposed
to have replied, 'Really, Lyndon! Can I have that?' Johnson
supposedly said, 'Of course, Harry. My God, man, you're
an ex-presiden of the United States. I'll arrange it. About
six months after Johnson got out of the White House, a
reporter caught up with him one day at the ranch and said,
'Mr President, is it true that you've got an army medical
corpsman living here on the ranch with you?' Johnson
said, 'Of course it's true, Harry Truman has one.'
--Robert Dallek (b. 1934)
American historian.
In Brian Lamb _Booknotes: Stories From American History_ [2001].


As increasing numbers of Americans died
in the fighting [Vietnam War] and Johnson
couldn't appear in public without risk of
protests, he became emotionally distraught.
By 1967, Georgia senator Richard Russell,
a Johnson mentor, couldn't bear to see
Johnson alone at the White House, because
the President would cry uncontrollably.
--Robert Dallek (b. 1934)
American historian.
In Robert A. Wilson _Character Above All; Ten Presidents _ [1999].

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There was a dark side to Johnson. He was unscrupulous. In Texas
politics, where he acted as a fund-raiser for FDR, he was closely linked
to his contractor ally, Brown & Root, for which he had negotiated
enormous government contracts to build the Corpus Christi Naval Air
Station. The company illegally financed Johnson's unsuccessful 1941
Senate campaign, and from July 1942 IRS agents began to investigate
both them and LBJ himself. They found overwhelming evidence not
only of fraud and breaches of the Hatch Act in the use of campaign
money, but of lawbreaking in many other aspects of Brown & Root's
business, including tax evasion of over $1 million. Both LBJ and
Herman Brown, head of the firm who had begun life as a two-dollar-
a-day rod carrier for a surveyor, could have gone to jail for many years.
The investigation was derailed as a result of the direct intervention of
FDR himself, January 13, 1944, and the matter ended with a simple
fine: no indictment, no trial, and no publicity. After this, LBJ was
involved in various Texan political intrigues of a more or less unlawful
nature and in building up a personal fortune (most of it in the name of
his wife, the long-suffering 'Lady Bird' Johnson) in radio-TV stations
and land.

There was also the case of Robert G. ('Bobby') Baker, a gangling
South Carolinan who had served Johnson as secretary and factotum
in the years when he was Senate leader. Baker was known, on account
of his power and influence, as 'the hundred and first Senator,' and
LBJ said of him, fondly: 'I have two daughters. If I had a son, this
would be the boy ... [He is] my strong right arm, the last man I see
at night, the first one I see in the morning.' In the autumn of 1963,
a private suit against Baker in a federal court, alleging that he had
improperly used his influence in the Senate to obtain defense
contracts for his own vending-machine firm, provoked a spate of
similar accusations against his probity, and in a number of them
LBJ was involved. The accusations were so serious that, just before
his assassination, Kennedy was considering dropping LBJ from his
1964 ticket, even though he feared that to do so would imperil his
chances of carrying Texas and Georgia. At Republican urging, the
Senate agreed to investigate the case. But by that time LBJ was
president and the full weight of his office was brought to bear to
avoid the need for testimony either from Johnson himself or from his
aide Walter Jenkins, who possessed a good deal of guilty knowledge.
The Senate committee, on which Democrats out-numbered
Republicans six to three, voted solidly on party lines to protect
the President.

--Paul Johnson (b. 1928)
British historian.
_A History of the American People_, pp. 870-71 [1997]

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In this age when there can be no losers in
peace and no victors in war — we must
recognise the obligation to match national
strength with national restraint — we must
be prepared at one and the same time for
both the confirmation of power and the
limitation of power.
--Lyndon B. Johnson (1908—1973)
American Democratic statesman, President [1963—1969].
(First address to Congress as President [27 November 1963].)


All I have I would have given gladly
not to be standing here today.
--Lyndon B. Johnson (1908—1973)
American Democratic statesman, President [1963—1969].
(First address to Congress as President [27 November 1963].)


All the way with LBJ.
--Democratic campaign slogan [1964].


If one morning I walked on top of the water
across the Potomac River, the headline that
afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'
--Lyndon B. Johnson (1908—1973)
American Democratic statesman, President [1963—1969].
Quoted on the back cover of William B. Whitman _The Quotable Politician_ [2003].


Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?
--Anti-Vietnam War slogan.

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"Hoover's Institution"
By Laurence H. Silberman
_The Wall Street Journal_ [20 July 2005]

[. . . ]

I became deputy attorney general in early 1974, after the "Saturday
night massacre." Having seen printed rumors of the "secret and
confidential files" of J. Edgar Hoover (who had died in 1972), I
asked Clarence Kelly, the very straight and honorable director of
the bureau, whether they existed. He assured me that they did not.
If they ever did they must have been destroyed.

I was shocked then, when on Jan. 19, 1975, as acting attorney
general, I read a front page story in the Washington Post confirming
the existence of the files. The story pointed out that the files
contained embarrassing material collected on congressmen. When
I confronted Kelly, he was initially mystified. He then realized the
Post must be referring to files in his outer office, in plain sight,
which he had inherited but never examined. Sure enough, they
were the notorious secret and confidential files of J. Edgar Hoover.

The House Judiciary Committee demanded I testify about those files,
so I was obliged to read them. Accompanied by only one FBI official,
I read virtually all these files in three weekends. It was the
single worst experience of my long governmental service. Hoover
had indeed tasked his agents with reporting privately to him any
bits of dirt on figures such as Martin Luther King, or their families.
Hoover sometimes used that information for subtle blackmail to
ensure his and the bureau's power.

I intend to take to my grave nasty bits of information on various
political figures — some still active. As bad as the dirt collection
business was, perhaps even worse was the evidence that he
had allowed — even offered — the bureau to be used by presidents
for nakedly political purposes. I have always thought that the most
heinous act in which a democratic government can engage is to use
its law enforcement machinery for political ends.

We attempted, without going into specifics, to explain to the
committee the nature of Hoover's secret files. I intend now to be
more specific because I see no reason why such matters should
not be public. Indeed, from my subsequent vantage point as
ambassador to Yugoslavia, I was rather surprised that the Church
Committee, which had access to the files, largely ignored the FBI's
misdeeds and concentrated instead on rather less objectionable
CIA activities.

We told the committee that the bureau had sought, at the direction
of a political figure, to gather unfavorable information on his
opponent during an election campaign. Rep. Herman Badillo of New
York pressed me to admit that it was an investigation of Allard
Lowenstein, an antiwar candidate running against Rep. John Rooney,
the powerful chairman of an appropriations panel with jurisdiction
over the FBI. I repeatedly denied that and finally said it involved
the presidential campaign of 1964. Shortly thereafter, Don Edwards,
the chairman, terminated the hearing. But reporters dug out more
facts.

Only a few weeks before the 1964 election, a powerful presidential
assistant, Walter Jenkins, was arrested in a men's room in
Washington. Evidently, the president was concerned that Barry
Goldwater would use that against him in the election. Another
assistant, Bill Moyers, was tasked to direct Hoover to do an
investigation of Goldwater's staff to find similar evidence of
homosexual activity. Mr. Moyers' memo to the FBI was in one
of the files.

When the press reported this, I received a call in my office from
Mr. Moyers. Several of my assistants were with me. He was outraged;
he claimed that this was another example of the Bureau salting its
files with phony CIA memos. I was taken aback. I offered to conduct
an investigation, which if his contention was correct, would lead me
to publicly exonerate him. There was a pause on the line and then
he said, "I was very young. How will I explain this to my children?"
And then he rang off. I thought to myself that a number of the
Watergate figures, some of whom the department was prosecuting,
were very young, too.

Other presidents, according to those files, misused the bureau,
although never Truman and Eisenhower. But Johnson clearly was
the most demanding. This discovery was particularly painful for me.
Although I was a life-long Republican, I had not only voted for LBJ,
I had signed an ad supporting him, which got me ejected from the
Hawaii Young Republicans.

In 1968 the FBI, at the president's direction, actually surveilled
Spiro Agnew, the Republican vice-presidential candidate. To be sure,
as subsequent events revealed, Agnew might well have been under
surveillance when, as governor of Maryland, he was taking bribes;
but in 1968 it was for the purpose of determining whether he was
in contact with South Vietnamese leaders. It was not for law-
enforcement purposes. Incidentally, the FBI never determined that
he was in contact with the South Vietnamese.

It was not only Republicans that Johnson targeted with the FBI. He
must have been obsessed with the Kennedy political threat because
he used the bureau to determine whether officials in his administration
were too close to Robert Kennedy after Kennedy left the administration.
Ironically, one of his White House assistants, whom he inherited from
JFK and was a particular subject of this sort of surveillance, is now
married to LBJ's biographer. I refer to Richard Goodwin, the husband
of Doris Kearns Goodwin.

Some of Johnson's suspicions of the Kennedys were rather amusing.
He became convinced that the Washington Star was secretly owned
by the Kennedy family and that is why he received less favorable
coverage from the Star than from the Post. He insisted that Hoover
unearth those connections. Hoover plaintively tried to explain that
the Star was owned by the Kauffmann family and that they were
Republicans.

But surely the most bizarre episode that I discovered (and can
reveal) involves the investigation and trial of Bobby Baker, who
had been LBJ's top Senate aide. To say that the president was
apprehensive about this episode would be a dramatic understatement.
The investigation and trial took place when Bobby Kennedy was
attorney general and Jack Miller the assistant attorney general for
the Criminal Division. During the investigation of Baker's Senate
activities, Miller asked the FBI to wire a potential witness. To his
astonishment Hoover responded with the ridiculous assertion that
it would be improper.

Of course, Hoover promptly reported this to LBJ as he had many
activities of the Kennedy Justice Department. However, Miller was
not to be deterred. With Kennedy's approval he called a special
assistant to Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler to gain help from
Treasury agents. The assistant arranged the help and Baker was
convicted. Much later, toward the end of the Johnson administration,
Hoover discovered Miller's end-around and duly reported it to LBJ,
who, furious, demanded that Fowler fire the assistant. Fowler
refused. That assistant was Robert Jordan, my Harvard Law School
classmate, subsequently general counsel of the Army and later my
partner at Steptoe & Johnson.

Hoover's shenanigans may well be the genesis of Watergate. I
noted in the files that he had an early private meeting with the
new President Nixon. I surmised that he must have let Nixon know
something of what he had done for prior presidents; it would have
been too dangerous not to. I further suspect that Nixon, whose
ethical standards were quite relative, would have concluded he
should have the same services that were available to his
predecessors. But he didn't trust Hoover totally, so he set up his
own political intelligence gathering network outside the FBI —
the plumbers. During Watergate, Nixon would occasionally mutter
that prior presidents were culpable of secret political intelligence
investigations. He even suggested that the Justice Department should
substantiate that claim. We ignored him, but I am sure he would have
seized on the Post's revelations of the secret files — if they had
appeared earlier. [. . . ]

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President Johnson was advised by the Joint Chiefs to strike guerrilla
sanctuaries in the North. He hesitated, in no small part because of a
bit of a cautionary word on fighting in Asia that he once received from
a surprising source. As the President tells it, when he visited the late
General Douglas MacArthur at Walter Reed Hospital for the last time,
the two got to talking about the Far East. Said MacArthur: "Son, don't
ever get yourself bogged down in a land war in Asia."
--"Foreign Relations: A Look Down That Long Road,"
_Time_ [19 February 1965]




JOHNSON (SAMUEL)

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see: "PEOPLE"
see: "WRITING"


I am not ... saying that Dr. Johnson was a man without originality,
compared with the ordinary run of men's minds, but he was not a
man of original thought or genius, in the sense in which Montaigne
or Lord Bacon was. He opened no new vein of precious ore, nor did
he light upon any single pebbles of uncommon size and unrivalled
lustre. We seldom meet with any thing to 'give us pause'; he does
not set us thinking for the first time.
--William Hazlitt (1778—1830)
English essayist.
_Lectures on the English Comic Writers_ [1819]

But the great Dr. Johnson was one in a century, and
I count myself honored to have tasted the wine of his
speech, even though put to my mouth through the
goodness of his friend. For that Englishman is not to
be read with the eyes alone, but read out, as with the
Word, with a good voice, and a rolling of the tongue,
so that the rich taste of magnificent English may
come to the ears and go to the head, like the
perfumes of the Magi, or like the best of beer,
home brewed and long in the cask.
--Richard Llewellyn [Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd] (1906—1983)
Welsh novelist and playwright.
_How Green Was My Valley_ [1939]

I can read every word that Dr. Johnson wrote
with delight, for he had good sense, charm,
and wit. No one could have written better if
he had not wilfully set himself to write in
the grand style. He knew good English when
he saw it.
--W. Somerset Maugham (1874—1965)
English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer.
_The Summing Up_, ch. XII [1938]

I at once and for ever recognized in him a man entirely
sincere, and infallibly wise in the view and estimate he
gave of the common questions, business, and ways of
the world. I valued his sentences not primarily because
they were symmetrical, but because they were just, and
clear. ... No other writer could have secured me, as he
did, against all chance of being misled by my own
sanguine and metaphysical temperament. He taught
me carefully to measure life, and distrust fortune; and
he secured me, by his admantine common-sense, from
being caught in the cobwebs of German metaphysics,
or sloughed in the English drainage of them.
--John Ruskin (1819—1900)
English art and social critic.
_Praeterita_ [1885-1887]

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The pioneering lexicographer Samuel Johnson
declared in his 1755 dictionary that the "bon"
was French for "good" (which it is), and
therefore "bonfire" obviously meant "good fire"
(which it doesn't). What makes Dr. Johnson's
error especially surprising is that when
"bonfire" had first appeared in English in the
15th century, everyone understood that the
"bon" meant "bone," and that a "bonfire" was
originally a fire made of bones, usually animal
bones that had accumulated over the course
of a year.
--The Word Detective




JOKES

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see: "HUMOR"
see: "SMILES"


Post September 11, suddenly the world feels
bi-polar again, and one of the things being
directed at us along with irrationality, hatred
of women, religiosity, and fanaticism, is
humourlessness. Humour is the obverse of
common sense. As Clive James said, "Humour
is common sense dancing." And without
humour there can be no common sense.
Humourless people aren't just the people
that don't laugh at jokes; I mean they can't
be trusted with anything. I don't know how
they get across the road without getting
knocked over, it seems to me such a basic
human quality, so it's important to assert
comedy and laughter in the face of its opposite.
--Martin Amis (b. 1949)
British novelist and son of Sir Kingsley Amis.
Quoted in "The Hindu" [6 October 2002].

The marvellous thing about a joke with a double
meaning is that it can only mean one thing.
--Ronnie Barker (1929—2005)
English television comedian, writer, and actor.
Quoted in "The Listener", vol. 99 [1978].

A difference of taste in jokes is
a great strain on the affections.
--George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819—1880)
English novelist.
_Daniel Deronda_, bk. 2, ch. 15 [1876]

Anyone who has at any time had occasion to enquire
from the literature of aesthetics and psychology what
light can be thrown on the nature of jokes and on the
the position they occupy will probably have to admit
that jokes have not received nearly as much
philosophical consideration in view of the part they
play in our mental health.
--Sigmund Freud (1856—1939)
Austrian psychiatrist.
_Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious [1905]

The world has joked incessantly for over fifty centuries,
And every joke that's possible has long ago been made.
--W. S. Gilbert (1836—1911)
English writer of comic and satirical verse.
_His Excellency_, act 2 [1894]

If all else fails, the character of a man
can be recognized by nothing so surely
as by a jest which he takes badly.
--Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742—1799)
German scientist and drama critic.
_Aphorisms_ [1765—1799], aphorism 46

_Omissis jocis_
(Joking aside.)
--Pliny the Younger or Caius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (62—c.115)
Roman senator and author of a famous collection of letters.
Ep. 1, 21

There are only a handful of possible jokes. The chief members
of this joke band may be said to be: The fall of dignity. Mistaken
identity. Almost every joke on the screen belongs, roughly, to
one or the other of these clans.
--Mack Sennett (1880—1960)
Canadian-born innovator of slapstick comedy in film.
Quoted in Richard Koszarski _Hollywood Directors, 1914-1940_ [1976].

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Another well-known example of spontaneous intuitive
insights are jokes. In the split second where you
understand a joke you experience a moment of
"enlightenment." It is well known that this moment
must come spontaneously, that it cannot be achieved
by "explaining" the joke, i.e. by intellectual analysis.
Only with a sudden intuitive insight into the nature of
the joke do we experience the liberating laughter the
joke is meant to produce. The similarity between a
spiritual insight and the understanding of a joke must
be well known to enlightened men and women, since
they almost invariably show a great sense of humor.
Zen, especially, is full of funny stories and anecdotes,
and in the Tao Te Ching we read, "If it were not
laughed at, it would not be sufficient to be Tao."
--Fritjof Capra
_The Tao of Physics_ [1975]




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JONES, CHUCK

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see: "CARTOON CHARACTERS"
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If Walt Disney was the first animator who taught me
how to fly in my dreams, Chuck Jones was the first
animator who made me laugh at them.
--Steven Spielberg (b. 1946)
American film director and producer.
Foreward to Chuck Jones _Chuck Amuck: The Life
and Times of an Animated Cartoonist_ [1994].





JOY

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Joy, n. An emotion variously excited, but in its highest
degree arising from the contemplation of grief in another.
--Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914)
American newspaperman, wit, and satirist.
_Wasp_ (San Francisco) [9 January 1886], as quoted in Fred
R. Shapiro (ed.) _The Yale Book of Quotations_ [2006].

I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that
no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.
--Edmund Burke (1729—1797)
Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters.
_A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our
Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful_, pt i [1756]

Oh, frabjous day! Callooh. Callay!
He chortled in his joy.
--Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832—1898)
English writer and logician.
_Thorough the Looking-Glass_ [1872]

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
--Chinese proverb

Variety is the mother of enjoyment.
--Benjamin Disraeli (1804—1881)
British Tory statesman, novelist, and Prime Minister [1868, 1874—1880].
_Vivian Grey_, bk. V, ch. iv [1827]

How happy are the pessimists! What joy is
theirs when they have proved there is no joy.
--Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830—1916)
Austrian writer.
Quoted in Maturin M. Ballou _Edge-Tools of Speech_, p. 251 [1886].

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form,
or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and
not pain around us.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
_The Conduct of Life_ [1860]

We choose our joys and sorrows
long before we experience them.
--Kahlil Gibran (1883—1931)
Lebanese poet.
_Sand and Foam_ [1926]

Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.
--attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832)
German poet, novelist, and playwright.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches;
one to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
--David Hume (1711—1776)
Scottish philosopher.
"The Sceptic" (essay) [c. 1750] in
_Essays Moral, Political, and Literary_, vol 1 [2 vols., 1875].

The trick is not how much pain you feel — but
how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not
to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
--Erica Jong (b. 1942)
American novelist.
_How To Save Your Own Life_ [1977]

We could never learn to be brave and patient,
if there were only joy in the world.
--Helen Keller (1880—1968)
American author and educator who was blind and deaf.
_Atlantic Monthly_ (May 1890) as quoted in
Bill Swainson _Encarta Book of Quotations_ [2000].

A man enjoys the happiness he feels,
a woman the happiness she gives.
--Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741—1803)
French soldier and writer.
_Les Liaisons dangereuses_ [1782]

Joy, and Temperance, and Repose
Slam the door on the doctor's nose.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1882)
American poet.
"The Best Medicines" in _The Belfry of
Bruges and Other Poems_ [3rd ed., 1846].

Enjoy yourself,
It's later than you think.
--Herb Magidson (1906—1986)
American songwriter.
"Enjoy Yourself" [1950 song]

Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly
enjoyed, must be interrupted.
--Jean Paul Richter (1763—1825)
German novelist.
_Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces_ , ch. VIII.

Shared pain is lessened; shared joy is
increased; thus do we refute entropy.
--Spider Robinson (b. 1948)
American-born Canadian science fiction author.
_The Callahan Chronicals_, pt. 6 "Earth and Beyond" [1997]

Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the
epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.
--Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712—1778)
French philosopher and novelist.
Attributed in _A New Dictionary of Quotations From the Greek, Latin ..._ [1859].

Anyone can sympathize with another's sorrow, but to
sympathize with another's joy is the attribute of an angel.
--attributed to Arthur Schopenhauer (1788—1860)
German philosopher.

A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.— 65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.
_Epistles_, XXIII, 3, 4

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How much better it is to weep at joy
than to joy at weeping.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Much Ado About Nothing_, I, i [1598—1599]


Silence is the perfectest herald of joy:
I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Much Ado About Nothing_, II, i [1598—1599]

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Actually there are only two philosophies of life: one is
first the feast and then the headache; the other is first
the fast and then the feast. Deferred joys purchased by
sacrifice are always the sweetest.
--Fulton John Sheen (1895—1979)
Roman Catholic bishop; the first popular preacher to appear on television.
_Life of Christ_ [1958]

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get
what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the
wisest of mankind achieve the second.
--Logan Pearsall Smith (1865—1946)
American-born man of letters.
_Afterthoughts_ [1931]

Gaiety is the outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
--Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (1879—1953),
Soviet Communist leader and head of the USSR from
the death of V. I. Lenin (1924) until his own death.
(Attributed 1935 comment.)

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value
of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
_Following the Equator_ [1897] "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar"

Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the
shutters of one house are closed, while the curtains of
the next are brushed by shadows of the dance. A wedding-
party returns from church, and a funeral winds to its door.
The smiles and the sadness of life are the tragi-comedy
of Shakespeare. Gladness and sighs brighten and dim
the mirror he beholds.
--Robert Aris Willmott (1809—1863)
English editor and author.
"Pleasures of Literature" in _The Eclectic Magazine_ [February 1852].

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The tide recedes, but leaves behind
bright seashells on the sand.
The sun goes down, but gentle warmth
still lingers on the land.
The music stops, yet echoes on
in sweet, soulful refrains.
For every joy that passes,
something beautiful remains.
--anon.

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blithe (adjective) [bLIdh]
Joyous, spiritedly if not giddily happy;
happy to the point of ignoring reality.

cavort [kuh-VORT], intransitive verb:
1. To bound or prance about.
2. To have lively or boisterous fun; to behave
in a high-spirited, festive manner.


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