I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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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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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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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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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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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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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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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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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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