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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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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Century Glaringly Good Nineteenth People Person Pretty Well
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Friend Man Proud Shall
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
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
When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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Expect Scream Sometimes Surprise Sweep Theory Torrent
The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Devil Gentlemen Sometimes Thing Very
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 a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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Amixim Care Cultivate Eye Golden Nose Themselves
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
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Idele Identity Personal Require Sense Strong
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
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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Behind Being Bettered Cheerful Every Heart Impulse Mankind Strong
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
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
I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Forget Grand Memory
I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Almost Friend Indispensable Man No Say Should Useless

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