Nothing like a little judicious levity.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWhen 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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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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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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The world has no room for cowards.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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