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A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

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All happiness depends on courage and work.

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And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

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Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

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Happy?" asked Aquilina, with dreadful look, and a smile full of pity and terror. "Ah, you do not know what it is to be condemned to a life of pleasure...more