Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe obscurest epoch is today.
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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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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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For my part, 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 mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Fiction 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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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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