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A gentle smile is more probably the last trace of an inherited habit of laughing
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- Charles Darwin British naturalist (1809 to 1882), born in Shrewsbury
Whether we look at laughter as the full development of a smile, or, as is more probable, at a gentle smile as the last trace of a habit, firmly fixed during many generations, of laughing whenever we are joyful, we can follow in our infants the gradual passage of the one into the other.
Where this was said
↗The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872)gutenberg.org
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