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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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Almost Friend Indispensable Man No Say Should Useless
Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Brute Force Last Made Nothing
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Dead Find Hearer Language Prepare Speech Spoken Until Willing Written
When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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Expect Scream Sometimes Surprise Sweep Theory Torrent
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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Being Condition Dominate Freed Habit Happy Largely
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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Essence Change Everything Outward Progress Same Ten Thousand
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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Affair Anywhere Great Move Part Travel
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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Clock During Fortune Frighten Mind Misfortune Pace Private Quite
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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Business Call Devotion Eglect Man Other Perpetual Sustain Thing
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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Change Child Condition Fiction Grown Many Outward
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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All Being Commingled Evil Good Human Out
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Absence Bright Delicate Gppd Influence Keep Love
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Arouse Cannibalism Disgust More Nothing Strongly
Wine is bottled poetry.
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Bottle Poetry Wine
But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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Dissolution Eye Fit Laugh Marriage Stare Tear Wife
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Lie Often Silent Told Vest

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