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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONBy being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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 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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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 an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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