Whether happiness may come or not one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

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It is never too late to be what you might have been.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand, the angels come

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand, the angels come to visit us and we only know them when they are gone.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people underst

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

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    Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

    Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.

    Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.

    Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections.

    Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect, but that you have looked beyond its imperfections.

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