"Friendship lives on its income, love devours its capital."

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“We must always have old memories and young hopes.”

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“Seize all the joy you can that robs no other. Sleep in peace, play in jolly earnest, wag well and mean it, and finally, be happy always. The more I see of dogs the less I think of men. Whoever beats dogs loves not man.”

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