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    To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
    —Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

    There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitchings of a mean merrymaker.
    Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1809–1852)