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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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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Friend Man Proud Shall
We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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Accept Actual Full Made Must Quality Stature Stuff
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Disquisition Follow Forgive People Philosophical Through
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Necessary Perhaps Politics Preparation Profession Thought
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Banquest Consequence Down Everybody Late Sit Soon
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Day Each Harvest Judge Plant Reep Seed
Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Judious Levity Little Nothing
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Foreign Land No Only Traveler
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
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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Between Come Difference Dinner Fast Good Life Long Only Sweet
When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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Boy Estate Grown Man Meddle Proud Shall Tell Toy
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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Change Child Condition Fiction Grown Many Outward
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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Affair Anywhere Great Move Part Travel
The obscurest epoch is today.
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Epoch Obscurest Today
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
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
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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Business Call Devotion Eglect Man Other Perpetual Sustain Thing
You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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Else Must People Person Read Share Someone Want
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Lie Often Silent Told Vest
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Church Favorite Great Kind Mountain never Scenery Wear
I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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Divine Down Father Glad Honor Human Least Shall
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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Eye Keep Mercy Open
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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Full Happy King Number So Thing World
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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Affair Anywhere Great Move Sake Travel
Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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Baby Buddhist Feel Impression Make Our Own Same Vegetarian Yet
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Give Love never Without
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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Body Come Cry House Many Ourselves Ove Passer Show Window

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