To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe 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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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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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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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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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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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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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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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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