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Quote by Bernard Cornwell
What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness. – Bernard Cornwell

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