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Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something,

Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do. – George Moore

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The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. – George Moore

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