You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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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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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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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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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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