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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes: The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.
         

The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.


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