Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Swedish term or phrase:
”Le mot världen, och världen ler mot dig”
English translation:
Smile and the world smiles with you
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Swedish term
Ireland
Reliable and accurate
Native in: English 
Works in: Danish to English, Norwegian to English, Swedish to English
”Le mot världen, och världen ler mot dig”
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Proposed translations
Sweden
Pharmacist and Translator
Native in: English (Variant: Australian)
Works in: Swedish to English, English
Smile and the world smiles with you
Seems there is even an album of the same name
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Christine Andersen
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Andrei Gitch (X)
: nice jazz song
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sans22 (X)
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Mel Willetts (X)
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Rodna Ruskovska
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Åsa Schoening
: “Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.” ― Stanley Gordon West, Growing an Inch
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lena helson
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Alison MacG
: or Smile and the world "will smile" with you
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Anna Herbst
: Åsa is right about the continuation of the saying, however, it is extremely unlikely that this old saying could be attributed to the writer of a book published in 2003 as she suggests.
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Helen Johnson
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trsk2000 (X)
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smile to the world and the world smiles to you
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Gabriela E Ascencio Z
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Cпасибо!
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Christine Andersen
: Smile and the world smiles with you is the version I know
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Cпасибо! http://www.lyrics007.com/Louis Armstrong Lyrics/When You're%20Smiling%20(The%20Whole%20World%20Smiles%20With%20Y%20Lyrics.html we all know this version :)
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Laugh, and the World Laughs With You
Also credited to Charlie Chaplin
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Note added at 14 mins (2012-02-01 21:35:14 GMT)
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"laugh" is not exactly "smile" but that's the original quote:)
http://www.trivia-library.com/b/origins-of-sayings-laugh-and-the-world-laughs-with-you.htm
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090514142852AA1gfb3
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Andrei Gitch (X)
: laugh is exactly not smile
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Mel Willetts (X)
: världen ler, inte skrattar
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I know. should have posted it as a discussion entry.
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trsk2000 (X)
: this is simply not right, it is by no means a recognised proverb or turn of phrase in English
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United Kingdom
Patents and related material specialist
Native in: English (Variants: British, Scottish, UK)
Works in: German to English, French to English, Swedish to English, and 4 more.
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