Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast."
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