http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/04/opinion/brooks-suffering-fools-gladly.html?hp&_r=0
"G. K. Chesterton had the best advice on suffering fools gladly. He put
emphasis on the gladly. When you’re with fools, laugh with them and at
them simultaneously: “An obvious instance is that of ordinary and happy
marriage. A man and a woman cannot live together without having against
each other a kind of everlasting joke. Each has discovered that the
other is a fool, but a great fool. This largeness, this grossness and
gorgeousness of folly is the thing which we all find about those with
whom we are in intimate contact; and it is the one enduring basis of
affection, and even of respect.”
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