It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while ther…

Charles Dickens
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It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour. ✨ Charles Dickens (1858). A Christmas Carol, p.64
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