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DRAMATISTS > dramatist > Pierre de Beaumarchais
I hasten to...
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I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep at it.
Source: Figaro, in Le Barbier de S?ville, act 1, sc. 2. Byron expressed a similar idea in Don Juan, cto. 4, st. 4: And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.
-- Pierre de Beaumarchais, (Jan 24 1732-1799), French dramatist; He wrote two outstanding comedies of intrigue that still popular today -- The Barber of S?ville, 1775, and The Marriage of Figaro, 1785.