Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI 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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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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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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