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It is said to contain the remains of the Three Kings. If it doesn’t, I have just made a journey for nothing. The bones are interred here due to being presented to the Archbishop of Cologne by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in
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“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
― Peter Pan
― Peter Pan
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― The Solitary Summer
― The Solitary Summer
“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
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“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
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“If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot hurt each other; and what a mercy it is that once in every twenty-four hours we are too utterly weary to go on being unkind.”
― The Solitary Summer
― The Solitary Summer
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