Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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- Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
- Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
- We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death.
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