Nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people di…

Charles Dickens
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Nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have a malady in the less attractive forms. ✨ A Christmas Carol. Book by Charles Dickens, 1843.
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