The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONBut 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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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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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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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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