Edith Wharton
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any."
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Mirth
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Edith Wharton
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making."
Charles Churchill
Poet, Playwright
"Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word."
Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay before it."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"But like of each thing that in season grows."
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"Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure."
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"Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.— Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!"
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"I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise."
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"With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage."
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"The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience."
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"Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric."
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"Mirth is the Mail of Anguish --"
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"Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger"
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"He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter."
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"Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy?"
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"Actually, there are countless ways to live upon this tremorous sphere in mirth and good health, and probably only one way - the industrial, urbanized, herding way - to live here stupidly, and man has hit upon that one way."
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"As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest."
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"When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin."
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"In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness."
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