It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThat man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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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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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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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 habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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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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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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