Pierre Beaumarchais1732–1799I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
Le Barbier de Séville (1773), Act I, sc. ii (Figaro). Harbottle and Dalbiac (1904) p. 63
Pierre Beaumarchais1732–1799I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.