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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 world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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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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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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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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