William Jones (1746–1794) Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India
From the Persian, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“And smiles to go before I weep,
And Smiles to go before I weep.”
Source: Smiles to Go
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