“Don't wish me happiness
I don't expect to be happy all the time...
It's gotton beyond that somehow.
Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor.
I will need them all.”
― Gift from the Sea
I don't expect to be happy all the time...
It's gotton beyond that somehow.
Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor.
I will need them all.”
― Gift from the Sea
“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.”
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“Where you tend a rose my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”
― The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Juvenile Fiction, Classics, Family
― The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Juvenile Fiction, Classics, Family
“Chingachgook grasped the hand that, in the warmth of feeling, the scout had stretched across the fresh earth, and in that attitude of friendship these intrepid woodsmen bowed their heads together, while scalding tears fell to their feet, watering the grave of Uncas like drops of falling rain.”
― The Last of the Mohicans
― The Last of the Mohicans
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