The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONPolitics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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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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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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