She maintained that one should enjoy the present, for fear of the future, and should seize happiness as it passes.
(Fromont Junior and Risler Senior, 1874)

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Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

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Distrust the man who smiles before he speaks.

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Hatred is the anger of the weak.

Alphonse Daudet (Letters from My Mill, 1869)

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