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““I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.””

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Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

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Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

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Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.

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