We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued
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A selected quote by Jean de La Bruyère.
We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued
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To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with
There's a woman like a dew-drop, she's so purer than the purest
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay
I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity.