It would be a heresy, but a much more sensible heresy, to say that seriousness is a vice. It is really a natural trend or lapse into taking one's self gravely, because it is the easiest thing to do. It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch . Satan fell by the force of gravity. A social conservative is a liberal with a daughter in high school.
Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
Oh well, four out of five isn't bad. The hot dog - it feeds the hand that bites it. Once upon a time, an intelligent, beautiful, independent, self-assured princess happened upon a frog in a pond.