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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 should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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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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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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Before Heaven Long Thing Us Well
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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