So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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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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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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