delightful duo

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"Mankind are always happier for having been happy; so that if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence, by the memory of it."

-Sydney Smith

just you and i

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"The world is full of a number of things,

I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings."

-Robert Louis Stevenson

sometimes i wonder

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"All one's life is music, if one touches the notes right and in time."

-John Ruskin

charming child

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"Take joy home,

And make a place in thy great heart for her,

And give her time to grow, and cherish her;

Then will she come, and oft will sing to thee,...

It is a comely fashion to be glad;

Joy is the grace we say to God."

-Jean Ingelow

sweet summer memories

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"If you will count up the sunny and cloudy days in a complete year, you will find that the fine day has come more often."

-Ovid

mother daughter day

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"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."

-William James

beautiful place beautiful people

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We just recently took a trip to Arkansas to visit family.  And I must say that my uncle lives on one of the most lovely roads out there.  One afternoon we met some friends and I was blown away with the beauty of the place.  The sun shone golden in the fields and the cows seemed to say welcome.  It brought me back to a time as a little girl when we would go visit for the summer and fetch eggs from the hen house, pick fresh berries and eat them warm off the vine,  go swimming in the cold creek, catch tadpoles and converse with the dogs on the porch.  An afternoon that became a little gift from heaven. 

"Oh, the world's a curious compound, with its honey and its gall,

With it cares and bitter crosses, but a good world, after all.

An' a good God must have made it- least ways, that is what I say,

When a hand is on my shoulder in a friendly sort o'way."

-James Whitcomb Riley