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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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Body Kill Not One Liner Spirit

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