Her mother said to her: 'You will injure your stomach.' The child replied: 'It's only ladies who have stomachs; little girls haven't any.'" "Heavens, how silly you are, doctor!" cried Nanteuil.
"I would you spoke the truth, mademoiselle.

Silliness is the capacity for happiness.

It is the sovereign content.

It is the prime asset in a civilized society." "You are paradoxical, my dear doctor," remarked Monsieur de Ligny.

"But I grant you that it is better to be silly as everybody is silly than to be clever as no one else is clever." "It's true, what Robert says!" exclaimed Nanteuil, sincerely impressed.
And she added thoughtfully: "At any rate, doctor, one thing is certain.
It is that stupidity often prevents one from doing stupid things.