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If our life be one of toil and of suffering, if the world outside be cold and dreary, what a pleasure to return to the sunshine of happy faces and the warmth of hearts we love.
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As life wears on the love of husband or wife, of friends and of children, becomes the great solace and delight of age.
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Even if we are alone, we store up our enjoyment in hope of sharing it hereafter with those we love.
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Love is the light and sunshine of life.
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Love lasts through life, and adapts itself to every age and circumstance; in childhood for father and mother, in manhood for wife, in age for children, and throughout for brothers and sisters, relations and friends.
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Most of those who have written in praise of books have thought they could say nothing more conclusive than to compare them to friends.
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Some people never seem to appreciate their friends till they have lost them.
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Every one must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.
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We love the ticking of the clock, and the flicker of the fire, like the sound of the cawing of rooks, not so much for any beauty of their own as for their associations.