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Gottfried Leibniz Quotes: To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's own.
         

To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's own.


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