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“I have known such joys the likes of which might have inspired a Homer or a Shakespeare.”

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“With the grit of the dust on her tongue and the wind sweeping against her face, joy welled up within her. For a few moments she could forget about the confusion and frustration that had fenced her in over recent weeks. For today, she was riding free.”

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“Grace is king.”

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“If you assign your happiness to external circumstances, you will never find the one thing we all deserve...joy in life.”

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