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William Matthews



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Then let us laugh. It is the cheapest luxury man enjoys, and, as Charles Lamb says, ``is worth a hundred groans in any state of the market.'' It stirs up the blood, expands the chest, electrifies the nerves, clears away the cobwebs from the brain, and gives the whole system a shock to which the voltaic- pile is as nothing. Nay, its delicious alchemy converts even tears into the quintessence of merriment, and makes wrinkles themselves expressive o...
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