It was evident that he had nothing around him but the simplest necessaries, for everything that I remarked upon turned out to have been sent in on my account.... Yet, having already made his fortune in his own mind, he was so unassuming with it that I felt quite grateful to him for not being puffed up. Charles Dickens
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  2. Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

  3. What greater gift than the love of a cat.

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  5. I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.

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