Oliver Wendell Holmes: Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope — Oliver Wendell Holmes

Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, f — Oscar Wilde
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Mein Vermächtniss, wie herrlich weit und breit; Die Zeit ist mein Vermächtniss, — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress. — Francis Bacon