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"You
don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because
you love her."
-Anon.
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"If you
love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If
they don't, they never were."
-Anon.
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"Love
has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are
expected to give -- which is everything."
-Anon.
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"Ama me
fideliter! Fidem meam noto: De corde totaliter Et ex mente tota, Sum
presentialiter Absens in remota."
Lat: "Love me faithfully!/See how I am faithful:/With all my heart/And
all my soul/I am with you/Though I am far away."
-Anon.,
Carmina Burana, "Omnia Sol Temperat" |
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"Love
does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle,
love is a war; love is a growing up."
-James
Baldwin |
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"Love
takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot
live within."
-James
Baldwin |
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"Love is
the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its
eternal goal is life."
-Smiley
Blanton |
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"The
best proof of love is trust."
-Joyce
Brothers |
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"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."
-H.
Jackson Brown Jr. |
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"We
perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when
alone together."
-La
Bruyere |
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"Perfect
love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually
have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the
sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the
acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of
the certain."
-Leo
Buscaglia |
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"Where
there is great love, there are always wishes."
-Willa
Cather |
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"A
relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows; Love can
erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last; To feel that
love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die; You hope
you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you
chose."
-Rob
Cella |
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"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of
antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both
together make up one whole."
-Samuel
Taylor Coleridge |
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"All
thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All
are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame."
-Samuel
Taylor Coleridge |
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"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."
-Charles
Caleb Colton |
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"Woe to
the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to
put its trust in life."
-Joseph
Conrad |
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"Absence
is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles
the great."
-Comte
DeBussy-Rabutin |
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"Love
builds bridges where there are none."
-R.
H. Delaney |
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"We are
all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."
-Benjamin
Disraeli |
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"Come
live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of
golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks."
-John
Donne, "The Bait" |
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"You
will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have
truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of
love."
-Henry
Drummond |
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"Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. My words echo Thus,
in your mind."
-T.
S. Eliot, "Four Quartets" |
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"The art
of love ... is largely the art of persistence."
-Albert
Ellis |
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"All
mankind love a lover."
-Ralph
Waldo Emerson |
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"The
hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain;
to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do."
-Nan
Fairbrother |
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"In love
the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two."
-Erich
Fromm |
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"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I
need you because I love you.'"
-Erich
Fromm |
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"Where
there is love there is life."
-Mahatma
Gandhi |
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"For it
was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips
you kissed, but my soul."
-Judy
Garland |
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"Life
without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."
-Kahlil
Gibran, "The Vision" |
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"Looking
back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say
so."
-David
Grayson |
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"There
is only one terminal dignity -- love."
-Helen
Hayes |
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"The
supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for
ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
-Victor
Hugo |
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"The
supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved."
-Victor
Hugo |
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"Love
can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion."
-Javan
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"The
moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and
feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for
you the world is transformed."
-J.
Krishnamurti |
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"Being
deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives
you courage."
-Lao-Tzu
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"The
cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of
humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that
everywhere produces and restores life."
-Lydia
Maria Child |
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"Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your
good health has vanished."
-Og
Mandino |
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"Do all
things with love."
-Og
Mandino |
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"The
only abnormality is the incapacity to love."
-Anais
Nin |
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"At the
touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
-Plato
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"We all
suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one,
perfection."
-Sidney
Poitier |
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"There
is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate
it where it does not."
-La
Rochefoucauld |
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"To fear
love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts
dead."
-Bertrand
Russell |
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"Tell me
who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are."
-Charles
Augustin Sainte-Beauve |
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"I have
said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I
feel as perfectly as you deserve it."
-Kyle
Schmidt |
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"Love
means never having to say you're sorry."
-Erich
Segal |
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"Romeo,
Romeo, wherefore art thou, / Romeo? / Deny thy father, and refuse thy
name..."
-William
Shakespeare |
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"A very
small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."
-Stendhal
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"To fall
in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human
loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a
comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one
desires to be."
-Anna
Louise Strong |
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"If you
judge people, you have no time to love them."
-Mother
Theresa |
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"Nunc
scio quit sit amor."
Lat.,
"Now I know what love is."
-Virgil
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"The road to
a friend's house is never long."
-Danish
proverb |
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"Friendship
is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn
in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you
really haven't learned anything."
-Muhammad
Ali |
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"A
friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a
little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so
often - just to save it from drying out completely."
-Pam
Brown |
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"Friends are
treasures."
-Horace
Bruns |
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"An
insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild
beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."
-Buddha
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"The only
way to have a friend is to be one."
-Ralph
Waldo Emerson |
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"He who has
a thousand friends
Has not a friend to spare,
While he who has one enemy
Shall meet him everywhere."
-Ralph
Waldo Emerson |
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"A friend is
one who knows you and loves you just the same."
-Elbert
Hubbard |
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"The real
test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person?
Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?"
-Eugene
Kennedy |
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"We call
that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who
has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of
losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is
silent and holds its peace in impotence."
-Joseph
Roux |
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"Be
courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried
before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow
grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is
entitled to the appellation."
-George
Washington |
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"True
friends stab you in the front."
-Oscar
Wilde |
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"We all
dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange
goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the
logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake."
-Erich
Fromm, The Forgotten Language |
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"One of
the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a
hand on our dreams."
-E.
V. Lucas, 365 Days and One More |
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"All men
who have achieved great things have been great dreamers."
-Orison
Swett Marden |
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"Throw
your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring
back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."
-Anais
Nin, The Diaries of Anaïs Nin |
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"The
future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
-Eleanor
Roosevelt |
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"Reality
is wrong. Dreams are for real."
-Tupac
Shakur |
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"Dreams
are the touchstones of our character."
-Henry
David Thoreau |
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"Learn
from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."
-Anon.
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"Some
people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold
thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique."
-Anon.
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"Enjoy
life. There's plenty of time to be dead."
-Anon.
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"Life is
like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up."
-Anon.
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"Life is
wasted on the living."
-Douglas
Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
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"Here is
the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're
alive, it isn't."
-Richard
Bach |
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"Life
consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."
-Josh
Billings |
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"The
question is not whether we will die, but how we will live."
-Joan
Borysenko |
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"Do not
dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the
present moment."
-Buddha
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"I still
find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the
walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I
want to see."
-John
Burroughs |
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"The
purpose of life is a life of purpose."
-Robert
Byrne |
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"Finish
each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders
and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is
a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be
encumbered with your old nonsense."
-Ralph
Waldo Emerson |
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"All
life is an experiment."
-Ralph
Waldo Emerson |
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"It is
not length of life, but depth of life."
-Ralph
Waldo Emerson |
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"Never
be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept
no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
-Harvey
Fierstein |
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"In
three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert
Frost |
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"It's
not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you
do with your life that counts."
-Millard
Fuller |
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"Live as
if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
-Mahatma
Gandhi |
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"What
lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what
lives within us."
-Oliver
Wendell Holmes |
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"The
great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."
-William
James |
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"Believe
that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
-William
James |
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"This
life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it."
-William
James |
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"The
tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to
begin it."
-W.
M. Lewis |
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"Tell me
not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
and things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art; to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul."
-Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow |
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"Don't
take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive."
-Warren
Miller |
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"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
-Jean-Paul
Sartre |
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"Live
every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be."
-Jeremy
Schwartz |
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"Not
life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."
-Socrates
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For some
life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever.
-Laura
Swenson |
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"May you
live every day of your life."
-Jonathan
Swift |
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"Be
happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead."
-Scottish
Proverb |
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"Most
people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy."
-Robert
Anthony |
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"...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect
practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or
none of it..."
-Aristotle
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"People
take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because
they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."
-H.
Jackson Brown, Jr. |
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"To live
a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of
abundance."
-Buddha
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"The
grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and
something to hope for."
-Allan
K. Chalmers |
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"Action
may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."
-Benjamin
Disraeli |
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"The
Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to
catch it yourself."
-Ben
Franklin |
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"He is
happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."
-Johann
von Goethe |
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"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life."
-Burton
Hills |
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"When
one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at
the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
-Helen
Keller |
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"I have
no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive."
-Henry
Miller |
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"Nobody
really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy."
-Cynthia
Nelms |
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"Good
humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society."
-William
Makepeace Thackeray |
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"The
best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
-Mark
Twain |
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"Some
cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
-Oscar
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