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How great a joy I feel in my heart. That a day so pleasant, so dear and glorious begins, a day that I greet with the wish. That long years may pass in happiness. In health and vigour, peacefully, successfully. May the gift of heaven fall richly upon you
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As quoted in his letter to his father, dated December 6th 1817

 

Frederic Chopin

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