“Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.”

— Alexandre Dumas , book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

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