We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONLife is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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