“Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.”
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
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Source: Les Misérables
“Such laughter, like sunshine on the deep sea, is very beautiful to me.”
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Poet
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