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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Book Enough Good Life Own Poor Substitute Way
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.
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Afterward Destiny Fatigue Lay Shall Thankfulness Turn Weapon
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Card Good Hand Hold Life Matter Play Poor Well
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Better Health Loe Miser Spendthrift Waste
No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Friend Man No Useless While
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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Impossible Likely Man Portrait Posterity Respect Scene Spirit
The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Devil Gentlemen Sometimes Thing Very
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Banquet Consequence Down Everyone Later Sit Sooner
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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Express Good Happy Make May More Much Myself Nearly Neighbour Say
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
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
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Friend Man Proud Shall
Everyone lives by selling something.
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Everyone Live One Liner Sell Something
Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Battle Bed Field Life Like Marriage Rose
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Best Cheap Compromise Lawyer
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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