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Birthday quotes Birthday messages work best when they sound like the relationship they celebrate. This collection is reserved for sourced words about time, friendship, gratitude and new beginnings—not generic wishes presented as famous quotations.
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✓ Source verified “With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.” William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice, Act 1, Scene 1 · View source
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✓ Source verified “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.” Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol, Stave Three · View source
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✓ Source verified “Lord, we know what we are but know not what we may be.” William Shakespeare
Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5 · View source
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✓ Source verified “Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.” William Shakespeare
Henry V, Act 2, Scene 4 · View source
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✓ Source verified “I have had my invitation to this world’s festival, and thus my life has been blessed.” Rabindranath Tagore
Gitanjali, poem 16 · View source
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