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LAUGHTER

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Je me hate de me moquer de tous, de peur d'etre oblige 1 d'en pleurer. I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. Beaumarchais—Barbier de Seville. Act I. Sc. 2. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Byron) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Laughter | page = 428418 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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. | author = William Blake | work = Laughing Song. | place = | note = | topic = Laughter | page = 428 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Truth's sacred fort th' exploded laugh shall win, And coxcombs vanquish Berkeley with a grin. —.  | author = John Brown | work = Essay on Satire. | place = Pt. II. V. | note = On the death of Pope. Prefixed to {{sc|Pope}}'s Essay on Man, in {{sc|Warburton}}'s Ed. of Pope's Works. | topic = Laughter | page = 428 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The landlord's laugh was ready chorus. | author = Burns | work = Tam o' Shanter. | place = | note = | topic = Laughter | page = 428 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep. | author = Byron | work = Don Juan. Canto IV. St. 4. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Beaumarchais}}) | topic = Laughter | page = 428 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = How much lies in Laughter: the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher the whole man. Carlyle—Sartor Resartus. Bk. I. Ch. IV. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Laughter | page = 428 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Nam risu inepto res ineptior nulla est. Nothing is more silly than silly laughter. Catullus—Carmina. XXXIX. 16. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Laughter | page = 428 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = La plus perdue de toutes les journées est celle où l'on n'a pas rit. The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed. | author = Chamfort | work = | place = | note = | topic = Laughter | page = 428 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh. Chesterfield—Letter to his Son. Feb. 17, 1754. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Herbert, Meynell}}) | topic = Laughter | page = 428 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true wit or good sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world. Chesterfield—Letters. Vol. I. P. 211. Ed. by Mahon. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Laughter | page = 428 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh. Chesterfield—Letters. Vol. II. P. 164; also 404. Ed. by Mahon. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Laughter | page = 428 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Cio ch'io vedeva mi sembrava un riso Dell' universo. What I saw was equal ecstasy: One universal smile it seemed of all things. Dante—Paradiso. XXVII. 5. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Laughter | page = 428 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool. Ecclesiastes. VII. 6. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Laughter | page = 428 }}