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“You hear that boy laughing?--you think he 's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.”
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- Source:
- The Boys.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 361be78ba0a0d51322fd1b1785b1f41cee68077fd01be8ae7a01fe4fe568a6fa
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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