"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."
"If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death."
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Source: Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.55
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