Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMarriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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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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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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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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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.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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 obscurest epoch is today.
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