The true philosophy of laughter has never been written. All learned books on the subject I have read are merely discussions of the comic. But laughter has further reaches than that. We not only laugh at jokes and capers but our best laughing is from the sheer joy of life.
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In the life of every baby there is a continuous succession of first impressions and adventures. The first tooth, the first crawl, the first step, the first word, each mark a milestone in the child’s career. But more interesting than any of these is the first laugh—the first genuine, sustained, prolonged, whole-hearted laugh. If it is a tinkling, bubbling, echoing laugh, it sends its merry waves in all directions—the kind that brings smiles to sober faces.
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