We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEveryone lives by selling something.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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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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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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 truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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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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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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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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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