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• Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone
• Je me presse de rire de tout, de peur d'etre oblige de'en pleurer.
  (I make myself laugh at everything, in case I should have to weep....
• Men bound in fellowship first weep and lament, But afterward the laugh.
  After great struggles they succeed in meeting....
• Don't be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don't be too bitter lest you be spewed out. Jewish Proverb
• If you can't laugh at yourself, I'll laugh at you.
• And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'T is that I may not weep.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto iv, Stanza 4...
• Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he?
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Prologue to the Satires, Line 213...
• Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too self-ful to seek other than itself.
  -- Kahlil Gibra...
• Squint as you approach me, lest you be blinded by my beauty.