Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared. -
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