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irreclaimable
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No man who has heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably depraved," quipped the Scottish essayist Thomas Carlyle, using humor to praise that ability of practically the only species that can laugh--humans.
Perhaps the phrase evolved from a line by Thomas Carlyle around 1833: "No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
 
 
 
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