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"Let my words, like vegetables, be tender and sweet, for tomorrow I may have to eat them." Author Unknown
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"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief." Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood." Lucius Annaeus Seneca