Life, 1905-05-04 · page 33 of 48
Life — May 4, 1905 — page 33: what you’re looking at
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This page collects famous literary and philosophical quotations about life, attributed to immortal figures (Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Emerson, etc.). It's a humorous conceit: these canonical writers offer contradictory platitudes—life is "cheerful" yet "real," a "fairy-tale" yet "true to nature"—suggesting that even great minds offer little practical wisdom. Below are two satirical cartoons: "Peace on Earth" mocks Kaiser Wilhelm II's claim that German warships guarantee peace, with an ironic illustration of a censor drowning in correspondence. "Placed" depicts two brief social jokes: a school named for suppressing "human impulses" (prudishness), and a decadent foreign count defining honor as marrying for money to pay debts. The satire targets pretension, censorship, and aristocratic hypocrisy.
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