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Indeed, smiles are no longer enough rictus laughter is often demanded. Look at prospectuses for schools, colleges, banks, holidays, charities. On the front of our telephone book, for example, is a picture of three teenagers laughing with the hugely opened mouths that a laugh is now supposed to involve. Sometimes in such pictures the laughing kids put their heads together and seem to laugh down at you as if you were trapped beneath them on the ground.
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The Spectator's Notes
The abolition of inheritance tax has always seemed attractive to me for a reason which most economists and politicians would despise: it would create a larger class of people free to do nothing without being a charge on the state. Although the work ethic is a wonderful thing, it surely benefits our culture if there are some people...
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