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Gaiety is an effervescence of spirits produced by the expectation or the receipt of money.
Gaiety is an effervescence of spirits produced by the expectation or the receipt of money.
Gaiety is alone the hard cash of happiness... everything else is just a promissory note.
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.