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A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

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Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

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And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

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He became...the ideal of that virtue which delights in its own work...doing everything with simplicity and dignity, for he seemed to realize that his ...more

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Happy?" asked Aquilina, with dreadful look, and a smile full of pity and terror. "Ah, you do not know what it is to be condemned to a life of pleasure...more