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What good it does one to have a hearty, uncontrollable fit of laughter.

— Charlotte Alington Barnard Fireside Thoughts, Ballads, etc., etc (1865)

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Flowers produce an effect on me which can only be produced in an equal degree by music.

Fireside Thoughts, Ballads, etc., etc (1865)

I cannot sing the old songs
I sang long years ago,
For heart and voice would fail me,
And foolish tears would flow.

Fireside Thoughts, Ballads, etc., etc (1865)

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