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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Friendship Marriage One Liner Police Recognize
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Aversion Border Close Indifference Regard
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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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
So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Ling Love Other Serve So
He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Hurry Indigestion Reap Sow
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Courage Fera Keep Other Share Yourself
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Dead Find Hearer Language Prepare Speech Spoken Until Willing Written
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Aim Find Fortune Life One Liner Worth
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
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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Day Each Harvest Judge Plant Reep Seed
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Book Enough Good Life Own Poor Substitute Way
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
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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All Being Commingled Evil Good Human Out
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Alone Bread Catchword Creature Live Man Primarily Upen
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Chequered Conversation Dispute Long Marriage One
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Action Appear Good Inevitable Mar Retrospect
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Another Conquer Curiosoty Mortify One Thing
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Almost Friend Indespensible Long Love Other Useless
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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Avoid Correct Eye Friend Kill Nothing Say Silence Transgreed
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Arrive Better Hopefully Thing Travel
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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Afterward Destiny Fatigue Lay Shall Thankfulness Turn Weapon

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