Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

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Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.

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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

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The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.

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But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?

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Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

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Where words fail, music speaks.

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We cannot expect to be happy always ... by experiencing evil as well as good we become wise.

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

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