Why don't you laugh, and make us all laugh too, And keep us mortals all from getting blue?
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America
"Why don't you laugh, and make us all laugh, too, And keep us mortals all from getting blue?
— from Cheerfulness as a Life Power by Orison Swett Marden
In all these details of common life, in all these signs of inward contentment and enduring prosperity, you detect the effects of the great underlying characteristic which is stamped upon the climate and the soil, upon the vegetable kingdom and the animal kingdom, upon man and his works, upon society and the individual.
— from The Philosophy of Art by Hippolyte Taine
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