Reply #3: I just read her bio and found that the famous quote "laugh, and the world

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laughs with you, cry and you cry alone", comes from one of her poems, what a pleasant surprise.

"Solitude"
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

LAUGH, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone.
For the sad old earth must borrow it's mirth,
But has trouble enough of it's own.
Sing, and the hills will answer;
Sigh, it is lost on the air.
The echoes bound to a joyful sound,
But shrink from voicing care...

http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/bl_wilcox_solitude.htm