"Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy."

-- Euripides

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“At Christmas you can get real bargains. I saw one item marked down ten dollars. It was a yacht.”
“This is the one international institution we have in which governments get together to work collectively for a common purpose. International crises, by definition, require international solutions. Peacekeeping is a response to conflict, is a response to situations in which often it is not the business of any one particular country to get into. It seems to me, therefore, that the world will for the foreseeable future need peacekeeping.”
“I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.”
“The key to success is to learn to do something right and then do it right every time.”
“It is not enough to recognize what is right and true. One must control the impulse to do what is wrong and easy.”
“Topcats often begin as underdogs.”
“Counting blessings is better than recounting problems”
“I am not sure what lonliness is," she said. "If it is not literally being solitary, is it the fear of solitude, of being alone with oneself? I feel no such fear. I like being alone." "What do you fear then?" he asked her. She glanced briefly at him and smiled, a fragile expression that spoke for itself even before she found words. "Never finding myself again....”

Source : Mary Balogh (2006). “Simply Love”, p.57, Delacorte Press

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