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Quote by Rudyard Kipling
Call a truce, then, to our labors -- let us feast with friends and

Call a truce, then, to our labors — let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if faint and forced the laughter, and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past. – Rudyard Kipling

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