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.
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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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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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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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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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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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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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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Everyone lives by selling something.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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