When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAn elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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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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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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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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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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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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