Certain intense kinds of happiness may perhaps be raised to ecstasy by the thought that another shares them.

But if the feeling in question be nothing more than cheerfulness, a man will not be made ecstatic by the knowledge that any number of other people are cheerful as well as he.
When the happiness of two or more people rises to a certain temperature, then it is true a certain fusion may take place, and there may perhaps be a certain joint result, arising from the sum of the parts.

But below this melting point no fusion or union takes place at all, nor will any number of lesser happinesses melt and be massed together into one great one.

Two great wits may increase each other's brilliancy, but two half-wits will not make a single whole one.

A bad picture will not become good by being magnified, nor will a merely readable novel become more than readable by the publication of a million copies of it.