Expression Quote by Margaret Oliphant

“Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.” quote by Margaret Oliphant — Download Open image

“Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.”

Margaret Oliphant

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