There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on our own quiet mood.
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Kenelm Chillingly; His Adventures and Opinions (1873).Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
Robert South
Fun I love, but too much Fun is of all things the most loathsom. Mirth is better than Fun & Happiness is better than Mirth.
William Blake
The common growth of Mother Earth
Suffices me,—her tears, her mirth,
Her humblest mirth and tears.William Wordsworth
The star that danced at Carroll's birth
In high exuberance of mirth
Is dancing yet.Charles (Lewis Carroll) Dodgson
The star that danced at Carroll's birth
In high exuberance of mirth
Is dancing yet.Lewis Carroll
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