Quote#Pain
Then let us love one another and laugh. Time passes, and we shall…
Quote byHilaire Belloc · 1870–1953
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Path to Rome (1902), p. xv.
English (original)
Then let us love one another and laugh. Time passes, and we shall soon laugh no longer—and meanwhile common living is a burden, and earnest men are in siege upon us all around. Let us suffer absurdities, for this is only to suffer one another.
— Hilaire Belloc
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