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Happiness, like misfortunes, never comes alone.

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

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It is the fine rain that soaks us through.
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The heart never becomes wrinkled.
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It is freezing fit to split a stone.
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There is nothing so lovely as to be beautiful. Beauty is a gift of God and we should cherish it as such.
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I pity those who have no taste for reading.
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In all nations truth is the most sublime, the most simple, the most difficult, and yet the most natural thing.
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... we ought to be astonished at nothing for what do we not meet with in our journey through life?
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The human heart will never wrinkle
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Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.
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there are some people who never acknowledge themselves in the wrong God help them!
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