LIFE
We laugh and laugh,
Then cry and cry —
Then feebler laugh,
Then die.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]

Note (1898-07-04), Mark Twain’s Notebook, ch. 21 “In Vienna” (1935) [ed. Albert Bigelow Paine]
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While summering in Kaltenleutgeben, Austria.