“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.”
Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.”
Source: Children of Light and the Children of Darkness
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