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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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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Aversion Border Close Indifference Regard
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Banquest Consequence Down Everybody Late Sit Soon
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
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
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Arrive Better Hopefully Thing Travel
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Best Cheap Compromise Lawyer
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
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
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Being Duty Happy No Underrate
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Daily Depend Make Morale Wrong
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
He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Hurry Indigestion Reap Sow
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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Alive Amen Humble Instead Know Ought Prefer Soul Tell
An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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Art Elegant Foundation Literature Pregnant Style Texture
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Another Conquer Curiosoty Mortify One Thing
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Disquisition Follow Forgive People Philosophical Through

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