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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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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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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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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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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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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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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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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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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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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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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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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