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Don Marquis Quotes: Happiness comes fleetingly now and then to those who have learned to do without it and to them only.
         

Happiness comes fleetingly now and then to those who have learned to do without it and to them only.


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Happiness comes fleetingly now and then to those who have learned to do without it and to them only.
         



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