A good laugh is sunshine in the house. - William Makepeace Thackeray

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All is vanity, nothing is fair.

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it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody

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Humour is the mistress of tears; she knows the way to the fons lachrymarum, strikes in dry and rugged places with her enchanting wand, and bids the fountain gush and sparkle. She has refreshed myriads more from her natural springs, than ever tragedy has watered from her pompous old urn.

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