"Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?"

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Man is a luxury-loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles.

— Eric Hoffer