Quotation by

Johnny Carson

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

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The quote humorously suggests that true happiness can come from seeing someone who usually causes discomfort experience a moment of pain themselves. It plays on the irony that the dentist, who reassures you about pain, ends up hurting himself, providing a sense of unexpected satisfaction.

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