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There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others. O, we need it! We need all the counterweights we can muster to balance the sad relations of life. God has made many sunny spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light from them?
There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others. O, we need it! We need all the counterweights we can muster to balance the sad relations of life. God has made many sunny spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light from them?
Approximate author period: c. 1830 AD · industrial
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- Thomas C. Haliburton
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- Approximate author period: c. 1830 AD · industrial
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- Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) (1896 AD)
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