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 I have known sorrow--therefore I
 May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily
  Than those who never read more 
 I have known sorrow--therefore I
 May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily
  Than those who never sorrowed upon earth
   And know not laughter's worth.
    I have known laughter--therefore I
     May sorrow with you far more tenderly
      Than those who never guess how sad a thing
       Seems merriment to one heart's suffering. 
We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.
We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.
A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.
A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people read more
Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
 For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that 
which he laughs at, than that which he read more 
 For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that 
which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.
 [Lat., Discit enim citius, meminitque libentius ilud
  Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.] 
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.
Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that read more
Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.