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A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived in him, and he will certainly miss him.

Many a time,… from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

Theodor W. Adorno

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

William Shakespeare

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

George Bernard Shaw

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If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

If you want work well done, select a busy man‚ the other kind has no time.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.