I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMarriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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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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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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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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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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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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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 forget oneself is to be happy.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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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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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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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