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"If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer . . .If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire, For we have some flax golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in!" -Shel Silverstein

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"You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense." -Aeschylus #pup #snaphappyguy (at Old Town, Fort Collins)

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"To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top." -Robert M. Pirsig #horsetoothreservoir #snaphappyguy #horsetoothrock #horsetooth (at Horsetooth Mountain)

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"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been." -Madeleine L'Engle #snaphappyguy #lyonscolorado #paper (at Lyons, Colorado)

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"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade." -Charles Dickens #horsetoothreservoir #snaphappyguy #icy (at Horsetooth Reservoir)

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"Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it." -Michelangelo #snaphappyguy (at Heidelberg, Germany)

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"I really like the idea of being a bit unpredictable. I'm known for being a nice, easy-going person with a straightforward exterior. So I think a bit of me wants to be sort of sly and devious." -Mark Haddon #veniceitaly #snaphappyguy (at Venice, Italy)

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"You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old." -George Burns #snaphappyguy #italy🇮🇹 (at Bergamo, Italy)

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“Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.” -Frida Giannini

(at Venice, Italy)

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"Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings." -Victor Hugo #italy #milan #riverduck #snaphappyguy (at Milan, Italy)

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"There is in the DNA of the Italians a bit of madness, which in the overwhelming majority of cases is positive. It is genius. It is talent. It's the masterpieces of art. It's the food, fashion, everything that makes Italy great in the world." -Matteo Renzi #veniceitaly #beautifulpeople #snaphappyguy (at Venice, Italy)

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"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself." -Richard Burton #bergamo #italy #snaphappyguy #shady (at Bergamo, Italy)

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"Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco." -Edmund Burke #rhüdeshiemamrhein #germany2016 #snaphappyguy

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"It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails." -Romain Rolland #beautiful #horsetoothreservoir #snaphappyguy (at Horsetooth Reservoir)

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"From the dog's point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog." -Mabel Louise Robinson #calibeach #snaphappyguy

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"If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror after mirror, No vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had Before the world was made." -W.B. Yeats #fortcollins #colorado #fortcollinsinstagram #snaphappyguy

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"I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began." -William Hazlitt #snaphappyguy #californialove #beauty #beachbumminit

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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began. -William Hazlitt #calibeach #snaphappyguy #beauty #landscape