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How can we be cheerful with the devil among us!

How can we be cheerful when our nerves are shattered?

How can we be cheerful when we are surrounded by a reading public, that is growing too wise for its betters?

How can we be cheerful when our great general designs are crossed every moment by our little particular passions?

How can we be cheerful in the midst of disappointment and despair?

Let us all be unhappy together.