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"Still, who could say what men ever were looking for? They looked for what they found; they knew what pleased them only when they saw it."
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"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."
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"True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand."
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"Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."
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