Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Laughter
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
Dr. Young.—Night VIII. Line 757.
The laughter of girls is, and ever was, among the delightful sounds of earth.
De Quincey.—(Note to Coleridge’s Speculations on Lit. and Phil.)