“ A man who has the faculty of raising a laugh in this sad, earnest world is remembered with indulgence and complacency, always. ”
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands (1854). copy citation
| Author | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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| Source | Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands |
| Topic | complacency laugh |
| Date | 1854 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6931/pg6931-images.html |
Context
“"Ah, well, Sidney repented of that, afterwards." He seemed to cling to his memory, and to turn from every fault to his joviality, as a thing he could not enough delight to remember.
Truly, wit, like charity, covers a multitude of sins. A man who has the faculty of raising a laugh in this sad, earnest world is remembered with indulgence and complacency, always.
There were several other persons of note present at this breakfast, whose conversation I had not an opportunity of hearing, as they sat at a distance from me. There was Lord Glenelg, brother of Sir Robert Grant, governor of Bombay, whose beautiful hymns have rendered him familiar in America.”
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