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Leisure unmasks our weaknesses.

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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
Aphorist
Weakness
Unmasks
Weaknesses
Leisure

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The privacy of reading frees us to entertain the alien.
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Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.
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I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice.
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