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Ecclesiastes 7:4 "The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth."

https://bible.com/bible/1/ecc.7.4.KJV




My dad is an atheist but he believes in that. He hates seeing other people happy


The House of Mirth would be a great name for a bar, or a theater. Or anything, really.

Come to think of it, so would The Heart of Fools.


Coincidentally there is literally the novel "The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton - published in 1905, it's an excellent late-Victorian/Gilded-Age period novel about the slow downfall of Lily Bart, a woman who was in New York's high society, then through a series of unfortunate events and social reproaches, descended into lonely poverty. It was quite influential at the time, portraying the materialism and shallowness of the moneyed crowd.




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