“No one in the world has (ever) laughed,
the least bit without weeping at the same time.”
Khwaja Mir Dard (1721–1785) Urdu writer
A Manual of Classical Persian Prosody: Couplet no. 297, p. 299
Poetry
“The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.”
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The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983)
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