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Two Burlesques of Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Note 4 — POETICAL EPISTLE.

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You may often be seen to smile, but never heard to laugh, while you live. Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill-manners. It is the manner in which the mob express their silly joy at silly things. In my mind there is nothing so illiberal and so ill-bred as audible laughter. Page 268.

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