There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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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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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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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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 a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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For my part, 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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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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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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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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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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