“A light wind swept over the corn; and all nature laughed in the sunshine.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XV : An Encounter and its Consequences; Gilbert Markham
“A good laugh is sunshine in a house”
Variant: A good laugh is a sunshine in a house.
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