That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONFiction 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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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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