¡°Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, but has trouble enough of its own.¡±
So wrote American Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) in an oft-quoted poem titled ¡°The Way of the World.¡±
If Wilcox had seen Ryutaro Nonomura, a 47-year-old member of the Hyogo Prefectural Assembly, in his incoherent crying jag on YouTube, she might have revised her verse to, ¡°Weep and the world laughs at you.¡±
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