Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness. - Madame de Stael

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If fruit juices or sugar solutions are left to stand in the open air, they show after a few days the processes which are covered by the name of fermentation phenomena.

Madame de Stael

Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness.

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