We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEach has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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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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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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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?
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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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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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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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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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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