A quotation from Carlyle, Thomas:

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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
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https://wist.info/carlyle-thomas/60318/

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A quotation from Beecher, Henry Ward:

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Mirth is God’s medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety — all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it.
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https://wist.info/beecher-henry-ward/1132/

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A quotation from Wordsworth, William:

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A cheerful life is what the Muses love,
A soaring spirit is their prime delight.
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https://wist.info/wordsworth-william/59068/

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A quotation from Havel, Vaclav:

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There are no exact directions. There are probably no directions at all. The only things that I am able to recommend at this moment are: a sense of humour; an ability to see the ridiculous and the absurd dimensions of things; an ability to laugh about others as well as about ourselves; a sense of irony; and, of everything tha…
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https://wist.info/havel-vaclav/58954/

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A quotation from Addison, Joseph:

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A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured. It will lighten sickness, poverty and affliction, convert ignorance into an amiable simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable.
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https://wist.info/addison-joseph/58736/

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Warm Holiday greetings to all you fine folks here on Mastodon. Thanks for the always interesting, never ending chat. May the New Year bring us a more just and peaceful world!

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Getting there! #christmas #holidays #GoodCheer

Seo rudín Nollaigiúil inteach le Charles Dickens atá aistrithe ón Sacs-Bhéarla agamsa:

‘Dá mbeadh mo thoil déanta, bheireofaí gach uile amadán a bhíonn ag siúl thart agus “Nollaig shona!” ar a bhéal mar aon lena chuidse maróige agus d’adhlacfaí é le cuaille as cuillin trína chroí.’

#Xmas #Nollaig #Gaeilge #GaeilgeBhriste #GoodCheer #HoHoHo

Any errors or infelicities of translation remain Dickens’s own bloody fault.

I trust this answers @seatrout’s question about my Christmas spirit.