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He who would travel happy must travel lite.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Age: 44 †
Born: 1900
Born: June 29
Died: 1944
Died: July 31
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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
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It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.
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