Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
- Topic: Friendship, Laughter
- Location: Olympic National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
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