... cheerfulness to those laborious studies , from which alone true greatness is derived . " Mrs. Wilson laughed at the oddities of her hus- band , as she called them , and represented him as one born at the beginning of the last century ...

... Cheerfulness can strain aptness : blissful domestic ignorance can be very tempting . But aptness and cheerfulness properly belong together in a marriage , Milton tells us . Where they fail , the marriage fails.2 An apt and cheerful ...