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The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.


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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.



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be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.



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