A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.

Henry David Thoreau
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Benjamin Franklin was the first person to print an entire book using a movable type press. His autobiography is an excellent read, and provides us with some great advice on life and love. In the book, he addresses love and how it can make us happy. The author tells us that he believes that the greatest happiness we can find in life is found in love. He states that if we could find someone who would love us no matter what we did, we would be happy.

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