"If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction."
-Jean de la Bruyere
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"There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.“
-Jean de la Bruyere
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"Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us."
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"We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all."
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"The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love."
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"Love and friendship exclude each other."
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