You hear that boy laughing?—you think he’s all fun;
But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done;
The children laugh loud as they troop to his call,
And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.
--
The Boys; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).Oliver Wendell Holmes
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