Quote from Hilaire Belloc's Preface

I'm reading The Path to Rome - I was thinking it might be a useful geography text for AO Year 12, which would be nice since it's online (Goethe's isn't), but I'm not sure it will be academic enough. Belloc is a lot of fun, though, so I'm going to read it anyway.

Here's a nice quote from his preface. I've been reading aloud the funny bits to Tim. This bit isn't so much funny as it is quotable.

"Let us love one another and laugh. Time passes, and we shall soon laugh no longer--and meanwhile common living is a burden, and earnest men are at siege upon us all around. Let us suffer absurdities, for that is only to suffer one another."