Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONPolitics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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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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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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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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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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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 be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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