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There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him understood him interested ourself in his welfare. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These moments are the moments worth living.
There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him understood him interested ourself in his welfare. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These moments are the moments worth living.
Approximate author period: c. 1907 AD · modern
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- Don Marquis
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- Approximate author period: c. 1907 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Don Marquis: life dates 1878 to 1937. Wikidata Q321378, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q321378 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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