The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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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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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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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Everyone lives by selling something.
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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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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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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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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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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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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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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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