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“Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years, it was a splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh.” Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.” Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
“She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
“The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them” George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
“when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.” J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night... You—only you—will have stars that can laugh!” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.” William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! It sounds egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.” Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
“I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.” W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies, do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.” Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
“Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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