When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAn aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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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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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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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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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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I 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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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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