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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands but let it go and you learn at once how big and precious it is.


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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands but let it go and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
         



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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.



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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.



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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.



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