"Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through."
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Source: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1970). “The German Ideology”, p.42, INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO
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