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Gaiety is an effervescence of spirits produced by the expectation or the receipt of money.

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Gaiety is to good-humor as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance. The one overpowers weak spirits, the other recreates and revives them. Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain ; goodhumor boasts no faculties which every one does not believe in his own power, and pleases principally by not offending.

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Gaiety is the emotion of a poor person on learning of the death of a rich relative.

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