Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh.
In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.
Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.
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