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no man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
no man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.
When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.
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.
The landlord's laugh was ready chorus.
The landlord's laugh was ready chorus.
Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known.
They that love mirth, let them heartily drink,
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Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known.
They that love mirth, let them heartily drink,
'Tis the only receipt to make sorrow sink.
Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least:
For wit is news only to ignorance.
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Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least:
For wit is news only to ignorance.
Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest
Thy person share, and the conceit advance.
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
He is not always at ease who laughs.
[Fr., Ce n'est pas etre bien aise que de rire.]
He is not always at ease who laughs.
[Fr., Ce n'est pas etre bien aise que de rire.]
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.
