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Better to smile on all that smile, and show
There is a comfortable kind of old scarecrow.
(William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet. Among School Children (l. 31-32). . .
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Richard J. Finneran, ed. (1989) Macmillan.)
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Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile.
(Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929), French semiologist. "Astral America," America (1986, trans. 1988).)
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You're the smile
On the Mona Lisa.
(Cole Porter (1893-1964), U.S. songwriter. "You're the Top," Anything Goes, Harms, Inc. (1934).
Music composed by Jerome Kern (1885-1945).)
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(dreaming,
et
cetera, of
Your smile
eyes knees and of your Etcetera)
(E.E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894-1962), U.S. poet. My Sweet Old Etcetera (l. 21-25). . .
Complete Poems, 1904-1962 [E. E. Cummings]. George J. Firmage, ed. (1991) Liveright.)
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Profundity must smile.
(Thomas Mann (1875-1955), German author, critic. Originally published as Lotte in Weimar, Fischer (1939). The Beloved Returns, ch. 7, p. 309, trans. by Helen T. Lowe-Porter, Knopf (1940).)
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What's the use of worrying?
It never was worth while,
So, pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
And smile, smile, smile.
(George Asaf (1880-1951), British songwriter. Pack up your Troubles (song) (1915).)
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And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more.
(Francis Bret Harte (1836-1902), U.S. author, journalist, poet. "The Society Upon the Stanislaus," st. 7 (1868).)
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The villain may be good looking, but his smile is never quite right.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection, New York (1989).)
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Swinging
clusters of red, the hedges are full of them,
red-currant red, a graceful
ornament or a merry smile.
(Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "The Victors.")
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Nostalgia paints a smile on the stony face of the past.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Second Selection, New York (1985).)
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