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How to use the word gaiety in a Sentence?

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Ordinary people think that talent must be always on its own level and that it arises every morning like the sun, rested and refreshed, ready to draw from the same storehouse -- always open, always full, always abundant -- new treasures that it will heap up on those of the day before; such people are unaware that, as in the case of all mortal things, talent has its increase and decrease, and that independently of the career it takes, like everything that breathes... it undergoes all the accidents of health, of sickness, and of the dispositions of the soul -- its gaiety or its sadness. As with our perishable flesh. talent is obliged constantly to keep guard over itself, to combat, and to keep perpetually on the alert amid the obstacles that witness the exercise of its singular power.

– Eugène Delacroix

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

– Denis Diderot

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Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.

– Joseph Stalin

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13 years ago

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.

– Plato

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13 years ago

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

– Michel de Montaigne

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14 years ago

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