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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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For my part, 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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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Give Love never Without
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Have Pleasant Ten Thing Toe Young
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Among Country Good Idea Make Moral Neighbor People Should
But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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