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Show THE SELFISH AND THE SOCIAL. - Sidney Smith asserts that "there is nothing which an Englishman enjoys more than the pleasure of sulkiness - of not being forced to hear a word from anybody which may occasion to him the necessity of replying." He also pleasantly remarks: "God has given us wit and flavor, and brightness and laughter, and perfumes to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marle." And the great essayist, Addison, wisely insists that "there is no real life but cheerful life." Steele said "I am persuaded that every time a man smiles but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to this fragment of life." He has another piquant remark, where he refers to sociality. "Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation." |