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Your laugh is of the sardonic kind.
Your laugh is of the sardonic kind.
And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.
And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.
The landlord's laugh was ready chorus.
The landlord's laugh was ready chorus.
If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.
If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.
That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.
That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
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When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
What I saw was equal ecstasy:
One universal smile it seemed of all things.
[It., Cio ch'io read more
What I saw was equal ecstasy:
One universal smile it seemed of all things.
[It., Cio ch'io vedeva mi sembrava un riso
Dell's universo.]
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.]
