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41 " If cold December gave you birth The month of snow and ice and mirth Place on your hand a turquoise blue Success will bless what'er you do. "
42 " The kiss of sun for pardon The song of the birds for mirth One is nearer God's Heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth. "
43 " God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth That they might touch the hearts of men And bring them back to heaven again. "
44 " Few things surpass old wine and they may preach Who please the more because they preach in vain - Let us have wine and women mirth and laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after. "
45 " And I was a Child again, watching the bright World. But the Spell broke when at this Juncture some Gallants jumped from the Pitt onto the Stage and behaved as so many Merry-Andrews among the Actors, which reduced all to Confusion. I laugh'd with them also, for I like to make Merry among the Fallen and there is pleasure to be had in the Observation of the Deformity of Things. Thus when the Play resumed after the Disturbance, it was only to excite my Ridicule with its painted Fictions, wicked Hypocrisies and villainous Customs, all depicted with a little pert Jingle of Words and a rambling kind of Mirth to make the Insipidnesse and Sterility pass. There was no pleasure in seeing it, and nothing to burden the Memory after: like a voluntarie before a Lesson it was absolutely forgotten, nothing to be remembered or repeated. "
― Peter Ackroyd , Hawksmoor
46 " She could have rambled with all the fervor of a woman who had loved one entity for longer than most races live, and with the inviolable, unquestioned certainty found in dementia. There were references dated and sealed with meticulous care which she would have enthusiastically opened with the mirth of one proclaiming a lifetime of honors and awards. But that singular event was freshly disturbed; its pores still drifted on the faint zephyr of remembrance. "
― Darrell Drake , Everautumn
47 " 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. "
48 " It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after. "
