Every saint has a bee in his halo. - E. V. Lucas

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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift.

E. V. Lucas

Every saint has a bee in his halo.

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The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.

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