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Book 14 Page 37
Nothing to laugh about
The king said to the jester;
“I would swap my life for yours tomorrow if I could laugh as heartily as thou.”
The jester replied.
“No thanks, if I had the weight of the whole country on my shoulders,
I too would not be laughing.”
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