An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo forget oneself is to be happy.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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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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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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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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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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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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