There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIf 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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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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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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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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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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