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You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.

W. Somerset Maugham
Happiness, Eye, Giving
W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “The Summing Up”, p.65, Random House
You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.