“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
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“The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
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― Kiss of the Spider Woman and Two Other Plays
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― Kiss of the Spider Woman and Two Other Plays
“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
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“Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.”
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