Нет сил не процитировать

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"Мы здесь для того, чтобы делать добро другим. А для чего здесь другие - я не знаю".
У. Х. Оден

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Получается исключительно плоско и не смешно, мелкая салонная острота. Я процитировал Одена буквально.

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Auden is commonly cited as the author of the sentence that he called "the conceit . . . of the social worker—'We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for, I don’t know'" (Prose, vol. 2, p. 347; cf. variants on pp. 160, 180, and 424). He never claimed credit for it, however, and the real authorship remained unknown to students of his work until a letter by R. Meikle in the Spectator, 22 November 2002, traced the sentence to the English music-hall and radio comedian John Foster Hall (1867-1945), who called himself The Revd. Vivian Foster, the Vicar of Mirth.
например отсюда
bold конечно мой