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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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Gift Habit Look Much Nature Offer Spirit
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Ancestor Arboreal Each Probably Sit Top Tree
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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Avoid Correct Eye Friend Kill Nothing Say Silence Transgreed
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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Almost Friend Indespensible Long Love Other Useless
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Another Conquer Curiosoty Mortify One Thing
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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Before Heaven Long Thing Us Well
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Laugh Love Man Much Often Success Well
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Courage Fera Keep Other Share Yourself
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Become Degeneration Fatty Man Marriage Moral Being Selfish Slack Undergoes
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Cause Die Hard Man Obstinate Outlive Some Vanity
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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Air Beauty Claim Forest Heart Make Much Quality Something
We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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All Ashamed Know Our Parliament
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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Difficult Effect Literature Mean Price Reader Wish Write
By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Anonymous Being Benefit Happy Upon World
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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Alive Amen Humble Instead Know Ought Prefer Soul Tell
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Necessary Perhaps Politics Preparation Profession Thought

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