We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMan is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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