It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONCompromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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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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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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