“If you do not want it to rain, always carry an umbrella.”
Andrzej Majewski (1966) Polish writer and photographer
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)
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“Be Someone's Umbrella in the Rain.
Everyone likes to be comfortable and dry.”
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