On discontent

by Todd Hebert

What is creation?……A failure

What is life?……A bore

What is man?……A fraud

What is woman?……A fraud and a bore

What is beauty?……A deception

What is love?……A disease

What is marriage?……A mistake

What is a wife?……A trial

What is a child?……A nuisance

What is the devil?……A fable

What is good?……Hypocrisy

What is evil?……Detection

What is wisdom?……Selfishness

What is happiness?……A delusion

What is friendship?……Humbug

What is generosity?……Imbecility

What is money?……everything

What is everything……nothing

Were we, perhaps, not happier
when we were monkeys?
-Edward Ward in The Scrap Book (1899)

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