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Happy people do a great deal for their friends.

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Willa Cather
Age: 73 †
Born: 1873
Born: December 7
Died: 1947
Died: April 24
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Willa Sibert Cather
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Money is a protection, a cloak it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.
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People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.
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People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.
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The revolt against individualism naturally calls artists severely to account, because the artist is of all men the most individual those who were not have been long forgotten.
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The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.
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One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days.
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life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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