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Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

William Dunbar

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Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

Benjamin Rush

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It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.

George Ade

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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

Joseph Addison

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Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.

Francis Quarles

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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.

Agnes Repplier

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Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

William Blake

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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.

Bishop Robert South

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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Joseph Addison

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I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.

Izaak Walton

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