By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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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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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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