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Count Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (August 29, 1862 - May 6, 1949) was a Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist..

"Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness."

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"We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them."

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"Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature."

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"Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance."

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"It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom."

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"They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors."

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