And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
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- Lots of sources credit Kahlil Gibran with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
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