To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me continued to have a certain storybook quality. I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times - The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give. β¨ The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt by Eleanor Roosevelt, (p. xvi), 1961.
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