Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.Robert Louis Stevenson
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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That a man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children who has filled his niche and accomplished his task who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.
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