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Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

— J. M. Barrie The Little White Bird (1902)

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To look upon you was to rejoice that so fair a thing could be; to think of you is still to be young.

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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

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Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

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