Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWhen 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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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.
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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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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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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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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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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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