"An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.“


-Maurice Maeterlinck

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An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

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