The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMost 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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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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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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