"Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided."
-Alphonse Karr
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"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns I am thankful that thorns have roses.“
-Alphonse Karr
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"Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else."
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"If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious."
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"Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end."
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"The more things change, the more they are the same."
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"I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked."
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"Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day."
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"Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts."
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"The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!"
-Henry Ward Beecher
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