Let we see this example

"Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset . . . His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him." --Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

                                                                                                                    

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