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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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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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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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