There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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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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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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