Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

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Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.

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... whenever Odette told a stupid story, Swann listened to his wife with a compliance, a gaiety, almost an admiration where some remnants of s...

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It is the blankness that follows gaiety, and Everyman must depart Out there into stranded night, for his destiny...

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

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The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Music

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Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.

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