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Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.

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Hugh Prather
Age: 72 †
Born: 1938
Born: January 23
Died: 2010
Died: November 15
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Hugh Edmondson Prather III
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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
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It's not that today is the first day of the rest of my life, but that now is all there is of my life.
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Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
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An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.
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If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.
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