Little things console us because little things afflict us. ✨ Blaise Pa…

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Little things console us because little things afflict us. ✨ Blaise Pascal (2013). Blaise Pascal Thoughts: Selected and Translated, p.62, Cambridge University Press
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Little things console us because little things afflict us. ✨ Blaise Pascal (2013). Blaise Pascal Thoughts: Selected and Translated, p.62, Cambridge University Press

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