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Explore Laughter quotations through time and change, attention and perspective, hope, loss, and renewal. Compare how different writers frame the idea across distinct works and periods.

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There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.”

Dickens treats good humor as socially contagious, capable of spreading through a room much like a mood.

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Stave Three; excerpted from a longer sentence.

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Life-oriented quotations range across time, change, hope, memory, nature, happiness, loss, and the ordinary decisions that gradually become a life.

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Time and changeAttention and perspectiveHope, loss, and renewalWhat makes ordinary life feel worthwhile

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Compare lines that point toward different definitions of a good life. The most useful quotation is often the one that names a tradeoff clearly rather than the one that sounds universally uplifting.

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Charles Dickens1 quotation in this topic

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A Christmas Carol1843 · 1 quotation