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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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Logical Once Pattern Sensuous Web
You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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Else Must People Person Read Share Someone Want
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Being Duty Happy No Underrate
I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Forget Grand Memory
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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Clock During Fortune Frighten Mind Misfortune Pace Private Quite
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Necessary Perhaps Politics Preparation Profession Thought
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Give Love never Without
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Ancestor Arboreal Each Probably Sit Top Tree
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
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Lie Often Silent Told Vest
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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Fellowship More Perfect Quite Rightly Solitude Understood
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
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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Almost Complete Education Enjoy Foster Found Friendship Health Money Profit State
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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Eye Keep Mercy Open
Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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Every Man Sane Somewhere Spot
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Action Appear Good Inevitable Mark Retrospect

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