Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory.

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Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

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To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.

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The sun shines upon good and bad alike.

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The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.

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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

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The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.

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Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.

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Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

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Each time I think that the song is ended ... something higher and better begins for me.

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