"A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture."
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"I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know."
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"Remain cheerful, For nothing destructive can pierce through The solid wall of cheerfulness."
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"We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world, because it is the best."
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"Don't talk to me about the world needing cheerful stuff! What the person out of Belsen physical or psychological wants is nobody saying the birdies still go tweet-tweet, but the full knowledge that somebody else has been there and knows the worst, just what it is like."
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"Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally."
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"Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word."
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"Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. (Of Sam)"
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"Everyone, including you, just naturally feels better when exposed to a cheerful, optimistic individual, regardless of the nature or length of the contact."
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"Be cheerful, also, and seek not external help, nor the peace which others give. A man must stand straight, and not be kept straight by others."
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"On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful awareness of life's incongruities. It is a gentling awareness, and no politician without it should be allowed near power."
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"The Great Snow! How cheerful it is to hear of!"
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"I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back."
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"That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness."
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"If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I have noticed that when a man is right down cheerful, he is seldom unhappy for the time being. Such is the nature of man."
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"Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil may take the rest, say I."
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"Every beginning is cheerful."
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"The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all."
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"As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart."
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"From the top of the staircase she sees the London train, modern and elegant, and she tells herself again: Whether it's good luck or bad to be born onto this earth, the best way to spend a life here is to let yourself be carried along, as I am moving at this moment, by a cheerful, noisy crowd moving forward."
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