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Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone

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  1. People prefer cheerfulness in others. A person who is cheerful will have company, but someone who is gloomy will often be alone. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, a poet of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, is the author of this saying.


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"Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone," is one of the truest things that Ella Wheeler Wilcox ever said.

From Vitality Supreme by Bernarr Macfadden

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