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There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.
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There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.
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“All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.”
“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
“It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.”