“The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?”
Stewart O'Nan (1961) American writer
Source: The Odds: A Love Story
“No concrete test of what is really true has ever been agreed upon.”
Source: "The Will to Believe" p. 15 http://books.google.com/books?id=Moqh7ktHaJEC&pg=PA15 <br class="br">Source: 1890s, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)
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How could I not be — after all that we’ve achieved together? After the worst recession in 80 years, we fought our way back.
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