“Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, but has trouble enough of its own.”
So wrote American Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) in an oft-quoted poem titled “The Way of the World.”
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