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“The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.”

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“Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.”

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“A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.”

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— Deendayal Upadhyaya

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— Pythagoras

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Literature1926–1984

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— P. G. Wodehouse

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